# Campus: Bringing an outsider’s eye to primary sources

An episode of [Campus Talks by Times Higher Education](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/588209017), 6 Jun 2024, 43 min.

Audio: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/wdixh9tqvm3iy69q/Alexandra-Harris-FINAL-MIX.mp3

For this episode of the Times Higher Education podcast, we talk to award-winning author, cultural historian and literary critic Alexandra Harris about the research and writing practices behind her new book, The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape (Faber, 2024). Alexandra is a professorial fellow in English at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Her books include Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists & the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper, which won The Guardian First Book award and a Somerset Maugham award, and Weatherland, which was adapted into a 10-part radio series for the BBC. This conversation explores what a literary scholar can bring to the study of local history, the power of place, and how “trespassing” researchers can find new insights in familiar records of everyday and celebrated lives.

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