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The healing power of nature writing
Health, Sports & Psychology

The healing power of nature writing

...work wonders for our wellbeing – this article explains how...Nature itself can be a healer – not just through the scientifically evidenced healing effects of green spaces, water, birdsong or being among trees, but also through the realisation that we are nature, not separate from it. This idea is central to a growing body of research, particularly in the fields of...
Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...working a small family farm in Sussex. [Tractor in a field by a lake] Contemporary haymaking working on a much larger scale. Meadow species are uniquely adapted to the annual cycle of summer hay cutting and aftermath grazing that has been shaping them for centuries. Since World War II, some 97% of our precious wildflower meadows have been lost, due to agricultural...
Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser

...work on a bipartisan basis. Clearly she had her own prepared formulas. On many occasions she began her responses to Trump’s comments by saying “much of that is not right”, and repeatedly implored people to fact-check Trump’s statements (many of which have already been judged misleading or downright untrue). At one point she recalled how Michelle Obama advised us...
What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?
History & The Arts

What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?

...work sheds new and damning light on the Duke of Windsor, a relative and confidante of Coburg. Duke of Coburg [Charles Edward Duke of Coburg] Coburg in 1933 Coburg was a grandchild of Queen Victoria destined for a privileged and unspectacular life. But the experiences of World War I changed him. After Germany lost the war, he turned to the radical right. In the 1920s he...
History and hope: Education for girls in South Sudan
Education & Development

History and hope: Education for girls in South Sudan

...working with the school management and prefects to encourage students to do their best. The Assistant Head Girl talks about the ripple effects of the education provided by the school – she uses her own education to teach her siblings, help her parents (who are illiterate) and working as an assistant in local aid agency projects. She, like others at the school, thus...
Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
Society, Politics & Law

Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes

...working in Berlin, participated in the Who Are We? Tate Exchange project with an installation titled, Citizenshop/Citizenship. In the midst of the ‘refugee crisis’, Brexit, and the increasing salience of xenophobic and anti-immigrant sentiments in both Europe and the UK, the installation drew attention to the less visible processes by which the wealthiest of...
Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...work for them as well) but at conferences and work-in-progress seminars especially at postgraduate level, there is that sense of maturity, of being able to show up, respect others’ opinions and respect the hours and hours of work that might go into a poster or a presentation or workshop and being about to generate a sense of community. I certainly felt that on...
Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...work on the Home Front. They can feel the weight of the gas mask and smell the stifling warmth of the mask on their face. This gives them a depth of understanding that nothing else could. For the moment they are connecting with the sensations and physical feelings of a wartime child. This richness and immediacy of experience can be applied across the curriculum and with...