This one-day symposium invites Arts and Humanities scholars working in relation toNeolithic or other ancient stone structures to submit an abstract for a shortpresentation (15 minutes) or a longer presentation/paper (25 minutes) on the themes ofmateriality, mythology, aDect and temporality. Ritual/sacred stone structures, such as henges, dolmens and cairns of the Neolithicand Mesolithic era have […]

Free public lecture on seminal 1790s Gothic writer, Ann Radcliffe, by Dr. Deborah Russell (university of York). Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) was “the great enchantress” of her generation, in the words of Thomas de Quincey. She changed the face of fiction in the Romantic period and shaped the development of Gothic romance. The extraordinary impact of […]