Understanding the US Election
Yesterday saw the first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the run up to the 2020…
Extracts
An A-Z of Poets – Part 2 (H-M)
National Poetry Day is a chance for everyone everywhere to read, share and enjoy poetry. Our Little Histories…
An A-Z of Poets – Part 3 (N-S)
National Poetry Day is a chance for everyone everywhere to read, share and enjoy poetry. Our Little Histories…
An A-Z of Poets – Part 4 (T-Z)
National Poetry Day is a chance for everyone everywhere to read, share and enjoy poetry. Our Little Histories…
The Mayflower – 400th Anniversary: An extract from ‘They Knew They Were Pilgrims’
September 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the departure from Plymouth of the ship the Mayflower which transported…
Terry Eagleton on Tragedy as a political institution
‘Sorrow and despair constitute a lingua franca. Yet tragedy in the artistic sense is a highly specific affair.’…
A Closer Look at Art | Techniques of Painting
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
A Closer Look at Art | Landscape
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
A Closer Look at Art | Christian Religious Painting
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
A Closer Look at Art | Mythological Painting
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
Blooming Flowers by Kasia Boddy – An Extract
The fact that the daisy grows in so many places — native to western, central and northern Europe,…
Conversations: Colonialism
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in…
A Closer Look At Art | Portraiture
Learn more about key concepts in Western European art history and gain further insight into the paintings and…
Conversations: Understanding Protest
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in…
Conversations: To Describe a Life by Darby English
A quotation from the French philosopher and political activist Simone Weil is the first thing the reader encounters…