Raymond Williams Centre for Recovery Research
The Raymond Williams Centre for Recovery Research is named after the famous cultural historian, critic, theorist and commentator (1921-1988). It was opened by Merryn Williams in 1995 and based in the Nottingham Trent University's English Division, School of Arts and Humanities.
The Centre brings together a collection of individual researchers and group research projects, whose work in English studies is mainly concerned with resistance, radical writing and publishing, recovery research and cultural theory. Among the Centre's interests are women's writing, recovery text editing and publishing, lesbian and gay culture and the limits of canonicity.
Our projects
Our work is mainly concerned with promoting the following projects:
- Trent Editions - aims to recover and publish landmark texts in handsome and affordable modern editions, by writers such as H.G. Wells, Storm Jameson, and John Clare, edited by such researchers as Dorothy Thompson, John Lucas, John Barrell and Tim Chilcott. It holds collections of accessible critics and commentary on subjects relating to those central to NifER's research project, including volumes by Peter Porter, Ronald Blythe and John Lucas.
- Recovery Projects on Clare, Bloomfield and Chatterton – linked projects on three neglected but important figures in Romantic poetry, in partnership with the John Clare Society, Robert Bloomfield Society and Thomas Chatterton Society, to develop research materials including editorial and critical work, dedicated websites and regular research events at NTU.
Our other projects include:
Contact
Raymond Williams Centre for Recovery Research
School of Arts and Humanities
Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane
Nottingham
NG11 8NS
Telephone: + 44 (0)115 8483060
Email: David Worrall
