19 June 2023
In partnership with the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project the Punjabi bus will share South Asian material from Birmingham’s Shakespeare Collection.
14 June 2023
Last week, the University welcomed almost one hundred international scholars onto campus for the ‘Authenticity and Adaptation’ conference.
12 June 2023
During Pride Month, we chatted with Will Jackson (BA Drama and Theatre Arts, 2017)
08 June 2023
Hi, I’m Vanessa and I’m a second year Drama and English student from London.
08 June 2023
Hi, I’m Elvira, a second-year English and Creative Writing student from Lincolnshire.
08 June 2023
Rianna shares five of her favourite moments from her time as an English Literature student at the University of Birmingham.
08 June 2023
Hi, I’m Chloe and I’m from a small village in Leicestershire. I study English Language at the University of Birmingham and have just completed my second year.
07 June 2023
Aimee shares the reasons she decided to study the Bard at the University of Birmingham and her favourite modules so far.
06 June 2023
The annual Hay Festival was held in book town Hay-On-Wye from 25th May to 4th June this year.
23 May 2023
More than half of creatives who put on live/location-based immersive experiences are having to self-fund performances, a new report finds.
23 May 2023
University of Birmingham's Dr Caroline Radcliffe, Reader in Drama and Performance, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
17 May 2023
Students on the Spring into Shakespeare short course had the opportunity to take part in a series of Q&A sessions with Royal Shakespeare Company practitioners.
15 May 2023
An exhibition of photography by Alan Gignoux and creative writing by people seeking refuge living in Birmingham, London, and Manchester.
04 May 2023
Dr Anna Metcalfe, senior lecturer in Creative Writing, has been listed as one of the best young novelists in Britain by Granta magazine.
03 May 2023
Over Shakespeare's birthday weekend the Shakespeare Institute was proud to host Professor Nataliya Torkut and her colleague Professor Maya Harbuzyuk.
03 May 2023
University of Birmingham academics and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) launch a new project to make Shakespeare accessible for deaf children in schools.
26 April 2023
Students, staff and alumni gathered last night to celebrate the result of Film & Creative Writing’s first in-person One Minute Movie Competition since 2019.
21 April 2023
Two Ukrainian academics will feature in William Shakespeare’s birthday celebrations in Stratford this weekend.
19 April 2023
To celebrate two major anniversaries and Shakespeare’s birthday the Shakespeare Institute, in collaboration with others, are holding several exciting events.
17 April 2023
Birmingham’s First Folio heads to Aston Hall on Shakespeare’s birthday, 23rd April, for its first outing of 2023.
28 March 2023
The Department of Drama and Theatre Arts is pleased to announce that four of its graduates have been shortlisted for prestigious theatre awards.
22 March 2023
Birmingham’s First Folio is set to continue its unprecedented tour of community spaces throughout 2023 as part of the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project.
22 March 2023
The College of Arts & Law remains amongst the best performing research-intensive universities in the world, according to the 2023 QS World University Rankings.
14 March 2023
The 'laziness' of Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare's first folio and the children of ISIS will all be explored by University of Birmingham experts at Hay Festival 2023.
13 March 2023
Great apes' spinning behaviours could provide clues about the role of altered states for the origins of the human mind.