Reading the Forest is a community project in the Forest of Dean. Led by local academics at the University of Gloucestershire with volunteers in the Forest of Dean, it has been funded by both the University, and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and is part of the Foresters' Forest landscape partnership.
The project researches the rich literary heritage of the Forest of Dean, sharing its findings through this website, social media, public events and through working with local schools. We want to engage anyone, of any age, anywhere, in this rich literary culture so that it can be explored, enjoyed, studied, and critiqued.
The project researches the rich literary heritage of the Forest of Dean, sharing its findings through this website, social media, public events and through working with local schools. We want to engage anyone, of any age, anywhere, in this rich literary culture so that it can be explored, enjoyed, studied, and critiqued.
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Roger Deeks (left) has a PhD in Modern History and has worked for the AHRC and BBC radio & TV productions about class, culture and war. His interest in Gloucestershire during the First World War and the stories of local war poets led to him being a founding Chair of the F.W. Harvey Society and subsequent establishment of a special collection at Gloucestershire Archives. He played an important role in Gloucestershire’s Commemorations of the First World War. He has published work on local and literary history and has been a recipient of the Bryan Gerrard Award (2011) and Cyril Hart Award (2010).
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Jason Griffiths (right) has a PhD in History from the University of Gloucestershire. His thesis title was 'Reading the Forest: A History and Analysis of Forest of Dean Literature'. After graduating in English from the University of Westminster, Jason was part of the team that set up Forest of Dean Community Radio. In 2004 he worked on the Voices From the Forest Festival marking ten years since the death of TV dramatist Dennis Potter, and subsequently helped secure the purchase of Potter’s papers that now form the permanent Dennis Potter Archive & Exhibition at the Dean Heritage Museum.
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