This year marks 250 years of the study of English Literature at Edinburgh. As the world's oldest department of its kind, English Literature at Edinburgh has a long and illustrious history. The University is hosting a year of lectures, exhibitions and activities to celebrate this milestone.

Latest episodes of the podcast 250 Years of English Literature

• Prof. Stefan Collini - From Belles-Lettres to Eng-Lit: Criticism and its Publics
• Theatres of Learning: Drama, the University and performance in Scotland
• The Edinburgh Review: Then and Now
• Stevenson Among the Psychologists - The SWINC Annual Lecture
• Daniel Wilson, Scotland and Canada: the export of English
• The Regius Chair and its incumbents
• Burns in Edinburgh
• From Belles Lettres to English Lit: the Victorian Regius Chair in in Glasgow and Edinburgh
• Shakespeare's Cheek: Another Bard in Scotland
• 1762