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  I took up drawing again about a year ago - I say again because I haven't really done any since my teens. Armed with a pocket-sized ske...

Continuing on the theme of books that provoke surprising connections when read together I want to recommend pairing Marilyn Strathern...

I was advised not to write about neurodiversity by an expert, a well-respected colleague that I've worked with for a number of years. ...

Covid-19 has impacted on so many things - too many to list. And as it has progressed a whole new vocabulary has sprung up in its wake. If ...

Online multimodal communication seems to thrive when it's easy to use and experiment with. It's one of the more attractive feature...

There couldn't be a better time to believe in science, to trust that reading the RNA structure of Covid-19 is useful and to hope that ...

It's only natural to compare the new with the old, to compare new situations with those we've seen before. It gives a sense of persp...

These are strange times to be thinking about data. In the tightening grip of pandemic and amidst all the uncertainty there is a thirst for...

A long-established habit of mine is to have two books on the go at the same time. More often than not one of them will be fiction, but the...

The only time I met a king was when I was trekking in Zanskar in Northern India - and even that's not quite true because although his f...

Reading through the proofs of our new book Undoing the Digita l is an interesting experience that throws up a whole range of reactions and f...

If my name still counts for something it is in the way it associates with my passport number and my license plate. Increasingly I get the se...

In a recent piece for the London Review of Books writer James Meek satirises British political opinion as a division between those living...

A lifetime of reading has done little to improve my word recognition skills. I often misread signs and notices, repeatedly confusing push ...

It is hard to think of what literacy studies would be like without the concept of multimodality - and for this we have Gunther Kress to th...

'Traces left by our ancestors from 25,000 years ago' the softly spoken guide explains. 'Wow' whispers the American woman i...

Out of all the fascinating studies that we've published in the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy there's one that holds a speci...

It was unseasonably warm with record-breaking temperatures over the Easter period. 'That David Attenborough knows something' the m...

In a democracy of things every object exists in relation to others. What's more all classes of objects have equal status although some c...

A good documentary should dig deep into a topic of interest or concern and judged against this the film ' H is for Harry ' is good...