Jane Harrison

Oct 28, 2024 | insidehousing.co.uk | Jane Harrison

Comment Trying to meet the increasingly tough regulatory expectations can have particular challenges for small organisations like ours, writes Jane Harrison, finance director at Soho Housing Sharelines How a small housing provider grapples with regulation and governance #UKhousing Trying to meet the tough regulatory expectations can have particular challenges for small organisations like ours, writes Jane Harrison at Soho Housing #UKhousing Successful delivery by housing associations is a...

Sep 2, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Jane Harrison |Mary Beard

In​ 1921, Jane Ellen Harrison, the maverick Cambridge classicist and celebrity public intellectual, was introduced to the crown prince of Japan when he came to receive an honorary degree from the university. She revisited this occasion a few years later in her memoir, Reminiscences of a Student’s Life.

Aug 16, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Jane Harrison |Fiona McFarlane |Mirandi Riwoe |Jane Rawson

Your first novel, A Treacherous Country, was set in 1840s Van Diemen’s Land—the island we now call Tasmania. Your new, Weatherglass Novella Prize-winning Astraea, takes place on a convict ship bound for the Antipodes. So what attracts you to writing historical fiction—and do you think that Australia offers an unusually evocative setting? I do. Or, I think that anywhere can offer an evocative setting when you start to delve into the history of a place.

Jul 8, 2024 | beat.com.au | Jane Harrison |Will Brussen |Lucas Radbourne

She sits down with Beat Magazine to have a yarn about how The Visitors is a powerful tool of truth telling, and in turn the healing that comes from this. The Visitors, written by Jane Harrison and directed by Wesley Enoch, explores how colonisation and invasion of the First People of so-called Australia still reverberates in society today, through a fictionalised story that is rooted in historical events.

Jun 20, 2024 | beat.com.au | Jane Harrison |Lucas Radbourne

On a sweltering day in January 1788, seven clan leaders gather on a sandstone escarpment overlooking the harbour. The attendees, six of them Elders and one new initiate, catch-up, laugh together, share a meal and compare notes. But beyond the friendly banter, protocols, and hospitality, a momentous decision is waiting to be made.