Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 6/9/2012 One of our PhD students, Ian Field, is one of the winners of the University’s competition to provide artwork for the new Alan Gilbert Learning Commons, which will be opening soon. Congratulations to Ian – you can see some of his images below. About his…

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 15/6/2012   The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded £1.85million to restore Elizabeth Gaskell’s House. Thanks to this support, the Italianate villa of 84 Plymouth Grove, where the author of Cranford and North and South lived with her family for 15 years, will now be fully…