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Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity (2021)
Thesis
Suwa Gbolagun, V. Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity. (Thesis). University of Salford

Tin mining on the Jos Plateau was the major income earner in Nigeria before petroleum was discovered in the Niger Delta region in 1958. The excavation for tin left the Plateau landscape environmentally depleted, with over forty-six per cent of its la... Read More about Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity.

Dismember the past (2019)
Thesis
Gregory, S. (in press). Dismember the past. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis is a creative literary biography, or historiographic metafiction, of the life and works of writer and composer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993). The text consists of two synchronous narratives: a fictionalised account of Burgess’ life as a wri... Read More about Dismember the past.

Edward Thomas's poets (2007)
Book
Thomas, E. (2007). J. Kendall (Ed.), Edward Thomas's poets. Manchester, UK: Carcanet Press Ltd

Edward Thomas is one of the best-loved of English poets, and a model of integrity for many of his successors. His poetry was written during the space of just two years, before he was killed in the First World War. Those years lie at the heart of Edwa... Read More about Edward Thomas's poets.