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Video: Reading by glow worm: the struggles of labouring-class poets

The John Clare Society’s President, Professor John Goodridge, delivered the Society for the Study of Labour History’s (SSLH) annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture at the John Rylands Library, Manchester on Saturday 13 June 2026. Titled ‘Reading by glow worm: the struggles of labouring-class poets’, it ranged from the 7th century Northumbrian cowherd-poet Caedmon to the Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison who died in 2025. Professor Goodridge was … Continue reading Video: Reading by glow worm: the struggles of labouring-class poets

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Ronald Blythe at the British Library

The British Library has acquired the archive of the great writer on English rural life Ronald Blythe, founder President of the John Clare Society and author of Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village. Blythe, who died in 2023 at the age of one hundred, never made use of a computer, but his papers, which run to a million pages, are said to have been kept … Continue reading Ronald Blythe at the British Library

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