President Donald Trump is seeing his poll ratings sliding from bad to awful ahead of November’s election, so you would be forgiven for assuming he’ll wind up an aberration in US history. But the truth is that the component elements of Trumpism have been a part of...
‘Trust in God – she will provide’ – Emmeline Pankhurst It would appear that July is a month of great British birthdays. Last week, we saw what would have been the 228th birthday of Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the greatest lyric and philosophical poets of the...
Sales of Albert Camus’ 1947 novel The Plague have skyrocketed since the onset of coronavirus. It’s easy to understand why: It tells the story of a town quarantined after experiencing a mysterious, infectious and deadly virus. Passages detailing daily life include...
In the long history of the Nobel Prize there have been 2 refusals from its chosen recipients. Refusals potentially carry as much if not more weight than that of the prize itself. To take a stand against such an established cultural institution promotes the award...
The Nobel Prize Foundation is a globally recognised organisation in its own right. It has celebrated candidates and laureates from nearly every country and focuses on a very broad range of human experience. You may want to know some more exact details about the...
My recent article on this subject (link: https://www.oxfordhomeschooling.co.uk/blog/1917-runners-of-the-first-world-war/ ) gave a broad overview of the role of runners in the First World War. This piece is a biography of two of the real-life soldiers who performed...
