History & The Arts
Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony
...The Open University’s music courses. At the 1837 Abergavenny Eisteddfod, a prize was offered for ‘For the best
History & The Arts
‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?
...courses. A small number of hymns are so familiar to many Welsh people that it might be tempting to say, for example
History & The Arts
What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
...course, Victoria herself is unlikely ever to have turned her hand at baking. According to the aforementioned biography, such matters were left to the team of confectioners and pastry chefs who kept her supplied with “the cakes and biscuits which, four or five times a week, follow Her Majesty to Balmoral, Osborne, or wherever else she may be staying”. The Queen-Empress...
Society, Politics & Law
57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two
...course the change has only been rolled out in the US so far, and I'm not sure what gender terms Facebook has previously had available in South Asia, for example. However, even among those currently living in the multicultural US, there are many people who will understand and experience their genders in ways which are not captured on the list. For example, as I understand...
Society, Politics & Law
Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
...courses, the prime minister’s aspirations for a more equal society could be met through higher education. Yet the most recent data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency demonstrates that the number of students enrolling for UK part-time higher education decreased by 6% between the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years. The proportion of undergraduates studying...
Society, Politics & Law
London housing protests echo Glasgow rent strikes of 100 years ago
...course the bedroom tax. The London protests were a reaction to the effective social cleansing of working-class residents by Tory/Lib Dem coaliton policy. Local tenants' organisations and protest groups have also been formed to co-ordinate discontent. Meanwhile, Corbyn’s Labour is proposing the biggest social-housing programme since the 1970s. This is all exactly 100...
Society, Politics & Law
Why we should remember the Armenians
...by the latest developments in technology. What the future shall bring to the Armenians as country and people only God knows of course. Who knows, if climate change destroys the globe through money-greed and idiocy, it is likely that mankind shall once again descend from the same mountain of Ararat. If we forget the Armenians we forget our history and imperil our future....
Education & Development
How do we learn language?
...courses and qualifications. Human nature [A group of children sitting on the floor looking up]Humans are not the strongest, fastest, or fiercest of creatures. And yet, put a group of us together and we have been able to inhabit every continent; develop science, law, art and medicine. The rise to our current position of influence is hard to imagine were we not able to...