Aesthetica Magazine
Literary magazine, started in order to promote creativity, equality and diversity within the literary arts around the York area.

Bangor University - Centre for Creative and Performing Arts
Bangor Centre for Creative and Performing Arts. Includes details of their Creative Writing courses.

Branching Out
Network for libraries; contemporary literature and reader development. Includes the fun and useful 'Which Book' service, for finding books by theme and subject.

British Comparative Literature Association
National association for the study of literature 'without confinement to national or linguistic boundaries'.

British Universities Film & Video Council
The BUFVC is a representative body which promotes the production, study and use of film and related media in higher education and research.

Cardiff University Online Creative Writing Course
Online creative writing course at certificate level.

City Stories Project
A global online writing project where readers submit their own personal true stories about the cities they live in.

Commonwealth Institute
Independent Commonwealth agency based in London with literature library including online booklists by country.

Cultural Co-operation
Cultural Co-operation is an independent arts charity that promotes cross-cultural contact, dialogue and understanding.

ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)
English Studies and related subjects in Europe.

European Picture Books Collection (EBPC)
EPBC was designed to help pupils to find out more about their European neighbours through reading the visual narratives of carefully chosen picture books.

Film Education
Encourages and promotes the study of film and cinema within the UK National Curriculum.

Foreign Office Guide to the UK
Provides UK information including information on arts and culture. The site is a collaboration between the FCO, British Council, UK Trade & Investment, British Tourist Authority and the government Visas department.

International Centre for Distance Learning
Includes information about distance learning literary and creative writing courses.

Index on Censorship
Bi-monthly magazine for free speech, with news and selections here.

Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism
Huge online library resource with a useful online Literary Criticism Collection with biographies of authors.

Introduction to Contemporary Children's Literature (Distance Learning Course)
Introduction to Contemporary Children's Literature is a one-year distance learning course run by the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature.

Jack Lynch
Eighteenth century English literature specialist at Rutgers who has course materials, links and other useful resources online.

Learn English
A British Council site that will help you improve your English. Has games and activities for Kids, Teens and Adults, including a writer-in-residence.

Learning Alive
Links to teacher resources on the web, school sites and discussion groups.

Lit-Net
For readers, writers, librarians, etc, based in the West Midlands region, with useful online resources.

Luminarium
English literature from the medieval to the seventeenth century with authors and their works.

MontageWorld
A British Council site creating virtual communities of teachers and students through global Internet curriculum projects.

National Association of Literature Development (NALD)
National Association of Literature Development creative reading initiative showcases reading development work throughout the Yorkshire region.

National Centre for Language and Literacy
If you want to arrange an author or illustrator visit in the UK search here. Supports teachers, parents and governors in a wide range of ways.

Literature Training
Brings together the expertise to support the professional development of writers and others working within new writing and literature.

Northamptonshire County Council Learning Resources for Education
Includes an A-Z of links to children's book author sites.

Open College of the Arts
Information about correspondence courses in creative writing.

Open University
Open University distance learning course information.

Orlando Project
Research project to produce an integrated history of women's writing in the UK.

Pillarbox
Useful free e-mail digest of UK and European literary and cultural studies conferences, seminars and publication opportunities. Subscribe here.

Poetry Archive
Poetry archive for out of copyright poetry - full text.

Postgraduate Study in British Literature
The British Council's comprehensive directory of all postgraduate taught courses and research opportunities in UK universities and colleges.

ProQuest Learning: Literature
An online service developed to support and extend the teaching of literature at all stages of secondary education.

Read This!
Read This! is a web project run by the Women's Library that aims to uncover what it is that teenagers really read, both currently, and in previous generations.

Romanticism On the Net
Scholarly online journal devoted to Romantic studies.

SALIDAA
SALIDAA (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive) is an online digital archive containing a substantial body of work produced by South Asian writers, artists, performers and musicians in England from 1947 to the present.

SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Network)
The Scottish Cultural Resources Network's mission is to create a fully searchable database of Scottish material culture and human history.

Scottish Group for the Study of the Book
Information about events, people and organisations in Scotland involved in the study of the book.

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Information related to Shakespeare.

STELLA
Electronic courses in Scottish literature.

Survey of English Usage
University College London's research news on English usage.

Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers
A large site with activities for primary age children. The English section includes Introducing Shakespeare and Newspaper Activities.

UCAS
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). Search for undergraduate degree courses at UK institutions including literature and creative writing degree courses.

University of Adelaide Library
English literature resource guide to the web including by period, genre, literary theory and creative writing.

University of London - School of Advanced Study
School of Advanced Study at the University of London includes conference information and the Institue of English Studies.

University of Toronto Online Poetry
Over 2,000 out of copyright poems online.

Victorian Web
University of Singapore site on literature and culture in the Victorian era.

Welsh Literature
Useful history of Welsh literature, from the dawn to time to the present day.

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