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Narrative workshop
Posted on January 31, 2019 Leave a Comment
We will be running a narrative workshop on 15 February at the University of Nottingham. The workshop is for people interested in narrative generally and the use of narrative in the healing of trauma and similar problems specifically. The workshop will introduce participants to both post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and narrative and provide practice in […]
National Storytelling week
Posted on January 30, 2019 Leave a Comment
It is national storytelling week. See: https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/national-storytelling-week-2019/. The Society for Storytelling is promoting its mission regarding the promotion of the oral tradition of storytelling, which was the original (?) way in which linguistically competent humans would communicate sophisticated information to each other. In the modern world that oral tradition has been lost. We rarely practice […]
Trauma and the First World War
Posted on January 25, 2019 Leave a Comment
We are currently embarking on a further round of our AHRC-funded research into the First World War. Further information can be found at the Centre for Hidden Histories website (http://hiddenhistorieswwi.ac.uk/). We are conducting a series of workshops around the country (Birmingham, Omagh, Cardiff and Glasgow) to encourage local groups interested in history to develop projects […]
Landscapes of Trauma
Posted on February 18, 2018 Leave a Comment
I have been writing this book now for about a year and a half. I wish I had the freedom to just sit and write rather than have to do it on top of a full time job, but knowing how little money authors earn I think I will stick with the full time job […]
Annual Blog?
Posted on November 15, 2017 Leave a Comment
I really should try harder at blogging. I have only just noticed that my last blog was added nearly a year ago. How do people do it? How do they add blogs most days or even weekly. Promise to self – must try harder. In the coming weeks I will begin to update where I […]