This week I’ve chosen to look at, The storytelling animal: How stories make us human by Jonathan Gottschall. I was interested to read about the forthcoming Ink: well project and thought I would like to learn more about the psychology …
Channel 4 and British film culture It’s always satisfying to review a title produced by ‘one of our own’ so here’s a a collection of academic journal articles printed in book form and co-edited by Justin Smith. Those of you …
This week’s book, Magazine Movements is by Dr. Laurel Forster, from UoP’s School of Media and Performing Arts. It extends the current research on women’s magazines into broadcast programmes as well as print media, defining magazines as ‘any media genre of …
We’ve begun to build on the skills of our enquiries team with a series of masterclasses, aimed at subjects which use more specialist subject resources. The first masterclass was dedicated to architecture and led by Lizzie, the Assistant Faculty Librarian, …
Members of The Ryde Art Collective (TRAC) visited Portsmouth on Friday to see the delights of the University Library and the Graduate Show. The one hour planned for perusing the library, quickly turned into 2!
Last night was a first for some of our Film Studies and Creative Writing final year students who saw five of their completed projects on the big screen at No. 6 Cinema in the Historic Dockyard. Three films explored the …
Creative Arts Film Review: Student Shorts at No. 6 on Thursday 28th May Read more »
Typography has been on my mind a lot recently what with ordering all of those extra copies of books for the bumper in-take of Graphic Design students. We’ve also got a little treat coming up next year, an online resource …
A chance meeting at library reception led to today’s event. I was able to put Joyce, from Portsmouth’s Inky Fingers creative writing group, in touch with Alison Habens, undergraduate course leader for creative writing. 6 students (gown) met with 8 …
I had a very enjoyable few hours yesterday at the open cabinet event in Eldon. Staff, students and even some alumni came along to explore the library’s varied collection of pop-up books. Mainly purchased to inspire illustration students, it was …
20th Century Fashion: 100 Years of Apparel Ads by Jim Heimann (editor) and Alison A. Nieder (text) This week I chose a book on fashion; a subject I have not covered before. During the 20th century, fashion evolved from being …
