Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative that is owned by its own members, blending photography with journalism and art, and always aiming towards authenticity throughout the photographers’ various storytelling methods. It was founded in 1947, in the wake of the Second World War, by four photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David ‘Chim’…
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Upcoming: Max Porter at the 2019 Spring Literary Festival
I remember that Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers was the first book that I read when I came to UEA. As a literature student, I am often encouraged to take literary analysis further than what a book makes me feel. But I so vividly remember how Grief made me feel. It is…
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2019 Spring Literary Festival
The 2019 Spring Literary Festival will be hosting some of the most prominent figures in the world of words. From the author of the experimental and profoundly moving Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter, to Rachel Cusk, the ground-breaking writer of auto-fiction. Singer-songwriter and author Tracey Thorn from the band Everything but the…
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Review: Sir Mark Elder conducts Brahms and Mahler
During a freezing evening at the heart of Norwich, the audience at the Norwich Theatre Royal was treated to the symphonies of the German Romantic composer and pianist Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) combined with the melodies of two other ‘musical pioneers’: Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), and English composer, conductor, and pianist Benjamin Britten (1913-76). The…
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A look into the British Archive for Contemporary Writing
The archive on the 02 floor of the UEA Library is a hidden gem. I found out about it during my first year, at an opportunity event where I met the archivist Justine Mann. Justine’s job is to deal with “the geeky cataloguing side of things” as she calls it, but she is also responsible…
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Christopher Andrew at the 2018 Autumn Literary Festival
Marking the beginning of the 26th Arthur Miller International Literary Festival at the UEA, Christopher Bigsby was joined by intelligence historian Christopher Andrew on Wednesday October 3. Andrew is an Emeritus professor in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge History Faculty. His publications include numerous papers and ‘doorsteps’ of books on…