The Archive

aN audio Collection to savour

Listen to a selection of our lectures at your own pace and explore our expanding back catalogue of recordings and notes. Perfect for long journeys or relaxed winter evenings.

Notes & Images

Lectures often include additional notes and photographs. Study the context of a work and deepen your understanding.

What’s included?

For the first time, we are able to share some of our past lectures. This unique audio archive of lectures explores some great literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with a focus on Virginia Woolf and her contemporaries.

Membership gives you access to an exclusive collection of past lectures, images, and notes from our archive. Listen again to some of your favourites and study topics in depth.
A collection of recorded lectures with a focus on Virginia Woolf and other great writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. We plan to add and rotate the selection of lectures every few months.
Our lecturers are world-class academics with deep insight into their subjects. Most are current or past members of the University of Cambridge.

An extract (above) from a lecture from our exclusive audio collection. Study at your own pace and revisit a topic as often as you choose with our recordings.

Currently in the Archive:

• NEW. Claire Davison, Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov
• NEW. Trudi Tate, Katherine Mansfield and the Drama of Being a Child
• NEW. Claire Davison on Winifred Holtby, The Land of Green Ginger
• NEW. Alison Hennegan on Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
• NEW. Trudi Tate, Lecture for Refugees: Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

• NEW. Gillian Beer, Reading The Waves Across A Lifetime
• NEW. Corinna Russell on Dickens, David Copperfield

• Karina Jakubowicz, Landscape in The Voyage Out
• Trudi Tate, Women in Love in Mrs Dalloway
• Trudi Tate, Mrs Dalloway and the Politics of Shell Shock
• Trudi Tate, Women in To the Lighthouse
• Alison Hennegan, Orlando and Sapphic Love
• Alison Hennegan, A Room of One’s Own: Women & Education
• Trudi Tate, Women in A Room of One’s Own
• Alison Hennegan, Androgyny in A Room of One’s Own
• Karina Jakubowicz, Gardens in The Waves
• Claire Davison, The Essence of Freedom in Three Guineas
• Claire Davison, The House as Theatre in Between the Acts
• Claire Davison, Between the Acts and Behind the Scenes: Woolf and Ethel Smyth
• Alison Hennegan, Virginia Woolf’s Early Houses

• Alison Hennegan, E. M. Forster and Italy
• Claire Davison, Katherine Mansfield and Russia
• Claire Davison, The Friendship of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
• Karina Jakubowicz, Language in George Orwell’s 1984

• Alison Hennegan, From House To Home: Pride and Prejudice
• Trudi Tate, Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade

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