The Exeter Great Hall, situated at the University of Exeter, re-opens its doors this autumn after three years to welcome internationally acclaimed rock and pop musicians including Newton Faulkner,Shinedown and Kaiser Chiefs.
The largest concert hall west of Bristol, the Exeter Great Hall has an illustrious history of staging concerts by music greats. U2, Bob Marley and Pink Floyd and more recently, Blur, The Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Keane, have all played at the venue.
Through a new partnership between Exeter Phoenix and Event Exeter, part of the University of Exeter,...
A research project exploring how Victorian attitudes towards the decorative arts continue to influence the way women’s creativity is viewed today will conclude with a public event featuring award-winning journalist and author Mishal Husain.
The Art of Fiction, led by the University of Exeter, has investigated the legacy of 19th-century attitudes that textile-based art and craft, like embroidery, knitting, and crochet, were lacking in artistic value.
Among the project’s outputs is a textile collage, to which more than 100 members of the public have contributed patches and...
The University of Exeter has come fifth in the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) rankings for the 2015 / 2016 season—equalling its best ever overall achievement and beating its own record on points.
The University also finished the year as the top ranked institution in men’s hockey, men’s rugby and women’s tennis and both the men’s rugby and women’s indoor cricket team won their BUCS championships.
The BUCs table is the national yardstick against which university sport is measured and this academic year saw Exeter enter 108 teams from 50 clubs into the league...
A fascinating collection of personal letters from a host of British literature luminaries to Henry Williamson, the author of Tarka the Otter have been donated to the University of Exeter. The University has received more than 2,000 letters from such celebrated writers, including, Siegfried Sassoon, John Betjeman and Enid Blyton as part of Williamson’s extensive personal archive. The letters arrive at the University almost 50 years to the day since Williamson first donated his literary manuscripts. Additional personal papers, including important diaries and journals will join the collection...
Unrequited love may be a thing of the past this Valentine’s for University of Exeter students with the help of an English literature expert.
Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson will assist the love-forlorn in the art of writing a truly romantic love letter.
In a world where the popularity of Twitter has reduced everyday conversation to a mere140 characters, it is hardly surprising that the skills needed to compose a personal letter are becoming a dying art. To address this demise, Dr Bernhard Jackson is giving a workshop on how to write a love letter. The intention is to get students...
YouGen founder Cathy Debenham has reached the final three in the Green Business and Inspirational Woman categories of the Devon Venus Awards . She will find out whether she has won at a grand awards ceremony in Exeter University’s Great Hall on 5 September 2013.
Cathy started YouGen in 2008, having noticed that it was difficult to get the practical information she needed to assess whether renewable energy was suitable for her house. Since then, the website has had nearly a million visits, and 2.5m page views.
“Just being nominated in two categories of the Devon Venus Awards...
A total of 1,400 nominations have been received for the inaugural Devon NatWest Business Women Awards. The awards began in 2009 in Dorset and are held in a number of regions across the UK.
Founded by working mother-of-four and managing director of the historic Langtry Manor Hotel in Bournemouth, Tara Howard, The Venus Awards were created to recognise the achievements of women in business.
The Categories sponsored by female-friendly local businesses, have attracted nominations across the following categories: Heart FM Business Mother of the Year; Cathedral Appointments...
