‘Outcomes for students graduating with English degrees are not significantly different in the longer term than for those graduating with STEM degrees. Studying English provides training in skills and knowledge which will hold their value in years to come.’ #EnglishCreates 4/4

‘English is by far the largest Humanities subject at A Level. Overall, more students took one of the three English A Level than any other humanities A Level ; around 30% more than took the next most popular subject (History)’ 3/4

The no assessment stress truly the selling point there! Also, well done!

Fowler says she finds walking a useful methodology because it allows her to situate herself in the landscape and understand why certain places were valued above others #VPFAExtremes

in a fascinating intersection of labour and colonial history, Ghandi visited Lancashire in 1931 to discuss the impact of the Indian boycott of British goods (particularly cotton) on the textile industry #VPFAExtremes

Take a look at Fowler’s book ‘Our Island Stories: Ten Walks through Rural Britain and its Hidden History of Empire’. She has an opium walk through the Lake District and more. It is a useful way of understanding what our colonial histories in this country are #VPFAExtremes

Edwardian spy fiction activated the idea of the chivalrous gentleman hero who is loyal to country, class, and kingdom. Ouida sets her spy fiction in the glamorous courtly world of high society and manipulates ideas of powerful men #VPFAExtremes

Adventure fiction often features a hero ‘whose connection to his world is eccentric, who cannot or does not accept the strictures of that world [...] undergoes many improbable adventures, and finally abandons the exotic and reintegrates into the adult world’ #VPFAExtremes

her writing asserts the permeability of geographical borders and finds new ways of asserting multilingual and multicultural identities. The mountains, particularly, represent a place where the world convenes and how she understood her own multicultural identity #VPFAExtremes