December 2020 issue Welcome Represent is a campaign launched and led by the library to help better depict our incredibly diverse pool of students, staff, and local population. It started in 2019, as an initiative of Heena Karavadra, our Academic Librarian, driven by a desire to create an environment where issues such as race, tokenism […]
Read More REPRESENT: STUDENT NEWSLETTERby Hannah Fox, Final Year BA English Literature with Media Studies & Library Champion I am a final year BA English with Media Studies student and last year I was fortunate enough to secure an eight-month placement with independent publisher HopeRoad. Founded by Rosemarie Hudson in 2010 after realising that bookshops and libraries predominately contained […]
Read More My time with HopeRoad PublishersOriginally published in French as Le Blue est Une Couleur Chaude, this graphic novel by Julie Maroh focuses on the lives of two young women in the late 1990s. It incorporates those typical coming-of-age, teenage concerns such as school, exams, parental (dis)approval and love. Clementine, a young girl in high school, finds herself inexplicably drawn […]
Read More AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2020: Blue is the Warmest Colour by Julie Maroh