Words can be incredible tools – with the power to heal, transform, and even make history. The following three inspiring speeches demonstrate their capacity to change the world. 1. Martin Luther King Jr., ‘I Have A Dream’, 1963 ‘I still have a dream, a dream deeply...
When we embark on our journey as students, most often it involves having to read a range of different books and text for purposes other than pleasure. Even if the subject we are studying or the skills we are looking to acquire are practical in nature, it is often...
Perhaps the most infamous witch hunt in history is that which consumed the American town of Salem, Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. An all-consuming spate of mass-hysteria, it was sparked by the accusation of a single enslaved woman, named Tituba. Her...
America’s new Biden administration moved to put anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman on the American $20 bill last month, after Donald Trump previously delayed the decision, branding it ‘pure political correctness’. This is a remarkable step in the right...
George Orwell died on the 21st January 1950. He forecast a world where governments controlled people’s lives completely, with his most famous warning given in the form of the dystopian novel 1984. So can we look around today and claim he was right? Or, does it remain...
Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was an English novelist and pioneer of the science fiction genre. She is best known as the author of Frankenstein. She was born on August 30, 1797, to William Godwin, a renowned philosopher and political journalist, and...
