Thursday Talk Hadrian’s Wall in Fiction and Film: Space, Place and Cultural Afterlife

Monuments like Hadrian’s Wall circulate in the cultural imaginary in complex and challenging ways.  The earliest piece of writing we have about the Wall is from the sixth century; it has since figured in art and literature since then, with a particular swell across the long twentieth century, with numerous articulations of the Wall in prose, poetry, television, film and video games.  Dr Stacy Gillis (Newcastle University), unpacks some of the complexities of the cultural afterlife of the Wall, leading a discussion about the relationship between the past and the present