Shakespeare, Bronte, Plath and Hughes are names that regularly trip off the tongues of students and English teachers alike; names that trip, perhaps, too easily. So the chance to go and visit the places where these writers lived and worked and to read their writing in the context of a physical location is something to be valued. In the May 2011 half term a number of L6 students and teachers made a tour of Stratford-upon-Avon and North Yorkshire to explore the physical, emotional and intellectual landscape of these writers. Read the full report.