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We asked the teams from our Library and Cultural Services section to recommend their favourite books this World Book Day, and they did not disappoint!
Hanna Jones
06 March 2024
The Lakeside Theatre team reflect on a busy month of LGBTQ+ theatre, workshops and screenings which brought together and celebrated the LGBTQ+ community at Essex.
Jonathan White, Hanna Jones, Kanyinsola Olanrewaju
29 February 2024
ESCALA, the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America at the University of Essex, was founded by staff and students in 1993 and inaugurated in December of that year with an exhibition at the University Gallery, now Art Exchange, and this year we celebrate 30 years since that foundation.
Gisselle Giron, Dr Sarah Demelo
22 November 2023
A visionary artist and poet, William Blake (1757-1827) created some of the most iconic images in British Art. This blog post discusses the recent exhibition in the Albert Sloman Library which focuses on the critical stance he took against the Age of the Enlightenment with its emphasis on science and reason.
Adhithi Ravikumar
11 October 2023
2023 marks the 100th anniversary since the publication of the first novel by Margery Allingham, and this presents an opportunity to celebrate the life, career, and legacy of a writer with a strong Essex connection.
Jordan Welsh
19 September 2023
Tilly Hawkins curates 'Dispatches from the Culture War', examining the NVALA archive of Mary Whitehouse through a queer lens on the Floor 1 landing of the Albert Sloman Library.
Tilly Hawkins
20 June 2023
Santiago Valencia Parra, Rabia Perwaiz, Adhithi Ravikumar, Dongxian "Gin" Zhang, Konstantinos Sfikas, Jingyi Chen, Olatoye "Toye" Salawudeen, Cynthia Iruobe
18 April 2023
Dr Matthew Bowman takes a critical deep dive into Sam Durant's Iconoclasm exhibition at the University of Essex, February to April 2023.
Dr Matthew Bowman
03 March 2023
The idea for the show A University Art Collection in the Making emerged from Dr Sarah Demelo’s research on the founding of the University of Essex Art Collections.
24 February 2023
We welcome Jonathan White as he steps into the role of Director of Library and Cultural Services and University Librarian on 1 February.
Library and Cultural Services
01 February 2023