Category: Education & Learning
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A Town That Never Left Her: Tracey Emin and Margate
Discover the powerful relationship between Tracey Emin and Margate, the seaside town that shaped her childhood, inspired her art and remained part of her identity. Explore Margate’s decline, revival and Emin’s remarkable return home.
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Everton and Anfield Need a Library: A Community Campaign Growing in Strength
Outside the Kop at a Liverpool FC home game, local campaigners gathered to raise awareness about the ongoing fight to bring a library back to Everton and Anfield. Since the sudden closure of Breck Road Library in 2025, the community has been organising, leafleting, and demanding action to restore vital literacy, digital access, and social…
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February Newsletter
February on alisonlittle.blog brings together grief writing, flash fiction, digital art, political storytelling and urban culture — from a deeply personal letter shown at a London memorial exhibition to new media installations in Liverpool and reflections on architecture, landscape and identity across the UK. A month of art, memory and creative survival.
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January Newsletter
A reflective round-up from alisonlittle.blog bringing together January’s writing, artwork and local cultural coverage — from returning to digital sketching and feminist conceptual practice, to flash fiction, hidden heritage, major Liverpool events, and the continuing campaign to reopen Breck Road Library, alongside new thinking about public art, play and creative space in the city.
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Fight to Reopen Breck Road Library Continues with Liverpool Protest
The fight to reopen Breck Road Library continued on Saturday 22 January, as former staff, community workers, councillors, and residents protested outside Liverpool Central Library. Campaigners highlighted the impact of the abrupt closure on Anfield and Everton communities, with young people speaking out about losing access to local library services.
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Liverpool Central Library Comes Alive for Year of Reading Launch
Liverpool Central Library came alive on Saturday 24 January 2026 as the city launched its Year of Reading with a vibrant day of poetry, performance, flash mobs, and storytelling. From spoken word exploring homesickness and identity to standout Scouse poetry and powerful historical insights, the event proved that reading in Liverpool is anything but quiet.
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Policing Fear: How Learned Helplessness, Recruitment Policy and Nepotism Are Failing Rape Survivors
For more than three decades, UK police forces have embedded student officers within university degree programmes, often recruiting individuals who continue to live at home while operating undercover among their peers. This little-examined policy raises serious questions about emotional maturity, resilience, and public protection—particularly in the context of rape investigations. Through an anonymised case study,…
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🎄 December Newsletter
December was filled with winter warmth, creativity, humour, and reflection on alisonlittle.blog. From winter running essentials and mindful hobbies to festive flash fiction, community celebrations, recovery at Christmas, scenic walks, and darkly comic seasonal stories, this month looked back on the many ways we moved, paused, laughed, and connected as the year came to a…
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Tea-ology
A flash-fiction meditation in which a robin balances a tea bag on its head like a graduation cap, echoing the rise of Leisure and Tourism degrees in the 1990s. Once dismissed as pointless, these subjects—like Tea-ology itself—reveal deeper questions about employability, terrorism, empire, and the fragile systems that shape global tourism. What appears whimsical becomes…
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Making Christmas More Meaningful: Simple Traditions, Less Waste & Proper Family Time
If Christmas usually leaves you knee-deep in wrapping paper and family chaos, this guide is for you. Explore easy ways to make the season more meaningful — with homemade touches, thoughtful gifting, peaceful get-togethers and cosy winter outings the whole family can enjoy.