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Chinua Achebe: The Lion's Historian

Posted by Pete on 22nd Nov 2022

The life and work of one of Africa's most celebrated writers...“There was a writer named Chinua Achebe… in whose company the prison walls fell down.”  Nelson Mandela Chinua Achebe was b … read more

John Clare: The Peasant Poet

Posted by Pete on 13th Jul 2020

Today in 1793, John Clare was born in rural Northamptonshire. He emerged from a peasant world to become a national poet, and his poetry was marked by the worsening inequalities and injustices in Bri … read more