Thu 6 Apr

Unreal City: London in Literature
19:00 - 21:00
Notes: From William Blake’s apocalyptic Lambeth to Zadie Smith’s postcolonial north-west suburbs; from Dickens’s bustling panoramas to Patrick Hamilton’s hangover-ridden 1940s haunts, London has inspired many powerful visions of the planet’s most complex city.
Fanfiction: Queer Narratives and Queer Communities
19:00 - 21:00
Notes: An online course diving into fanfiction and what it means to queer communities, looking at the history and origins of the format and different incarnations across the decades.
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Thu 6 Apr

Unreal City: London in Literature

Fanfiction: Queer Narratives and Queer Communities

What We Do