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Dear All, This will probably get filed somewhere between 'helping someone-else's students' and 'more institutional promotion' but here goes ... Each year students on the MA in Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway are able to undertake a collaborative web project. Some recent examples are at: www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/ma/web-projects.html The Cultureville one is a nice resource for first years or even prospective students (it was written to a brief of explaining Cultural Geography to sixth formers), while last year's Soundscape of London won a project prize from the Landscape Research Group. This year's group are experimenting with creative writing and the city - specifically using a map of the London Underground as a framework for recording memories, poems, short stories or other located responses to London. They are advertising to a range of publics beyond the academy, but I said that I'd promote through academic contacts. So if you do feel the urge for a little creative writing between the next paper and the holiday postcards, the address is: www.wikimapping.co.uk See Old Street or Brixton for stations with stories If successful the site will be kept and plumbed into the main MA website with a new URL. Thanks for reading this far - enjoy your (northern) summer. David -------------------------------------------------- David Gilbert Professor of Urban and Historical Geography Director of MA in Cultural Geography (Research) Department of Geography Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey TW20 0EX. Tel (01784) 443653 Fax (01784) 472836 [log in to unmask] www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/gilbert/index.html --------------------------------------------------