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This Web site hosts the draft text of the new version of the second part of 'The London stage, 1660-1800'. The original work was an authoritative multi-volume guide to the plays and theatre history of the Restoration and eighteenth century in London, first published in the 1960s and 70s. The section of the new edition made available here covers the period between 1700 and 1729

London's Screen Archives is the regional network of organisations in London with moving image collections. We aim to preserve and care for the amazing screen heritage of this great film city so that it can be enjoyed by everyone. This site showcases films made in or about London from the earliest days of cinematography to the present. The films are looked after by a wide range of archives, libraries and museums in London

Quattro musei di Londra (Museum of London, London Transport Museum, Jewish Museum, Museum of Croydon) si uniscono per creare un nuovo portale dedicato alla storia della capitale inglese nel 20esimo secolo: Arte, paesaggio urbano, comunità, ambiente, vita privata, icone, divertimento, guerra, migrazione, politica, servizi pubblici, sport, trasporti, lavoro, cultura giovanile, tutti i temi da esplorare declinati all'insegna della vita della città e della sua storia recente. Una mappa interattiva conduce il visitatore anche all'interno dei vari quartieri della città e un timeline per sezioni cronologiche permette di visitare Londra nelle varie fasi della sua storia culturale.

a new e-journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the representation of London (particularly in literature).

London Review of Books Blog

The Poetry Library is the website of a physical library based in the South Bank Centre, London. The library was founded in 1953 and holds the largest collection of modern poetry in Britain. Its collection includes all modern poetry published in the United Kingdom from 1912 and a wide selection of international materials in English dating from the 20th century to the present day. The Poetry Library website provides a catalogue and an online enquiry service as well as: details of current and past exhibitions; news of forthcoming events (poetry readings, appreciation classes, workshops); related links; lists of poetry publishers and poetry magazines; and advice for poetry reading groups.

Poet, printmaker, visionary, the British artist William Blake (1757-1827) made work that is both profoundly personal and universal. Tate Britain is now presenting the most comprehensive exhibition of Blake's work ever held (9 November - 11 February 2001). The aim is to show Blake as an artist, as a poet and as a man. William Blake Online is designed to enrich your experience of the exhibition by introducing some of Blake's artistic and poetical works, his life story and the London that he knew. The site follows the four exhibition sections, but includes a fifth section, Learning Tools, designed especially for teachers' and students' needs

This site provides extensive resources for students, teachers, scholars, and all others interested in researching the Georgian Theatre milieu, both in London and the British American colonies.

Joseph Donohue is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has taught dramatic literature since 1971. A theatre historian with special interests in the British and Irish theatre from the late eighteenth century to the present and in the nineteenth-century British music hall, he is the author of Dramatic Character in the English Romantic Age (Princeton, 1970) and Theatre in the Age of Kean (1975), and editor (with Ruth Berggren) of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St. James's Theatre, London, 1895 (Colin Smythe, 1995), which won the 1997 MLA prize for an outstanding scholarly edition and the 1997 Hewitt prize for an outstanding work of theatre history

Founded in 1999 by Tom McCarthy, the International Necronautical Society (INS) spreads itself as both fiction and actuality, often blurring the two. "Famously described as 'replaying the avant-garde along the faultline of death'" (Art Monthly, London), the INS inhabits and appropriates a variety of art forms and cultural 'moments' from the defunct avant-gardes of the last century to the political, corporate and conspiratorial organisations they mimicked. The INS's manifestos, proclamations, reports, broadcasts, hearings, inspectorates, departments, committees and sub-committees are the vehicles for interventions in the space of art, fiction, philosophy and media.

Though translation is a vital part of any vibrant literary culture, no practical guide to the process of translating foreign works into English and preparing them for publication has yet been made available to prospective translators, editors, or readers. In February 2008, editors and translators from the US and UK came together at the British Council in London to discuss "best practices" for translation of literary works into English. This volume comprises the results of that meeting, a collection of summaries, suggestions, and instructions from the leading literary translators and publishers. It is intended as an introduction, the first in an ongoing series of documents to be published by Dalkey Archive Press that will address the challenges faced by translators, publishers, reviewers, and readers of literary translations.

Hosted by John Mullan, professor of English at University College London, the Guardian's book club examines a book a month, via a weekly column in the Guardian Review, a live Q&A session with the author, and a blog-discussion of the featured novel. Mullan's first three columns discuss the book in question; his final column consists of a selection of your comments from the live event and the blog

Free Word works at the meeting point of literature, literacy and free expression as a catalyst for collaborations, nationally and internationally, that explore the transformative power of the word. At London hub the Free Word Centre, runs a programme of events and exhibitions, and provide a home to seven resident organisations and over 25 associates, working across literature, literacy and free expression.

Video interviews with 50 Jewish women who made an impact on life in the UK. There were a range of interviewees including theatre related interviews Janet Suzman, Pamela Howard, Abigail Morris, Miriam Karlin, Maureen Lipman, Susannah Kraft, Julia Pascal. Topics included identity, feminism, relationship with mother, relationship to Great Britain, exile, holocaust, ambition.The interviews were carried out by Pascal Theatre Company in association with the London Jewish Cultural Centre

Portale dedicato alla vita culturale a Londra dalla prospettiva delle culture alternative

The People's History of Classics began life as an AHRC-funded research project based at King's College, London called Classics and Class in Britain 1789-1917. Our primary aim was to present and amplify the many lost voices of British working-class men and women who engaged with ancient Greek and Roman culture throughout the period. We wanted to show the richness and diversity of the responses to ancient Greece and Rome among those who are often thought to have been excluded from it. By presenting their stories now, via the Archive of Encounters, we hope that their example may inspire a more inclusive atmosphere for participation in classical culture across society today.