Part One Towards the end of the school year, we welcome students from schools in the local surrounding areas of Hull and Holderness to participate in our work experience scheme. During the first week of our work experience scheme this year, our work experience students Ella and Lydia participated in a variety of tasks and […]
Author: Jake Ripley
The title of Diana Souhami’s 2020 book proclaims, No Modernism without Lesbians – and one of the key women in it came from one of the great Hull shipping families. Annie Winifred Ellerman was born in Margate in 1894. She was the daughter of John Reeves Ellerman, the Hull shipping company magnate, and his partner […]
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BJL Bookflix: #2
Labyrinths By Jorge Luis Borges (1962) “The library will endure; it is the universe… We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others.” Jorge Luis […]
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BJL Bookflix: #1
Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (1831) A Romantic Gothic fantasy of 15C Paris. Forget the Disney travesty: this is an unforgettable immersive adventure, like a mash-up of Walter Scott, Lewis’s The Monk and François Villon. Claude, a brilliant young priest and alchemist, destroys himself and all around him over an unrequited and forbidden […]