See the changes George Eliot made as she wrote The Mill on the Floss.

Take your interest in literature further by studying with the Open University. 

Learn how Victorian children would have enjoyed an expensive book like Edward Lear's collections of nonsense verse.

Hear how Spenser removed the preface which explained what The Faerie Queene means. 

Go on an adventure with Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs, as you find a nonsense alphabet of animals and learn some nonsense by heart.

Feeling loving, adventurous or scared? Poetry Prescription will find you the perfect poem to reflect your mood.

This free course, Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, is designed to tell you something about Hardy's background, and to introduce you to the pleasures of reading a nineteenth-century novel. Why do we believe in fictional characters
and care about what happens to them? You will discover some of the techniques that Hardy uses to achieve an illusion of real people and their relationships in a real world. Through analysing narrative you will think about who the narrator is, and
the importance of the narrative point of view in telling the story, as well as understanding how characterisation, the use of dialogue, time and locations work within the novel.

This free course, Introduction to law in Wales, gives a brief overview of the legal history in Wales from the 12th century, followed by an overview of devolution and referendums, the law making powers of the Welsh Assembly and the possible future for legal Wales.

Morality and selfishness sound like opposites - but not according to the Russian-American novelist of the 1950s, Ayn Rand.