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  • History,  Social Issues,  Thought-provoking

    The efficiency of evil: Auschwitz and the detail of genocide

    14th October 2020 / 2 Comments

    (7 minute read) Ronnie Convery is shocked by the minutiae of a death camp and its hideous attention to detail.

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    Ronnie Convery

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    It’s an ill virus that blows nobody any good

    25th August 2020

    No going back: confronting the past in Gone with the Wind

    10th July 2020

    Fighting totalitarianism: lessons from the White Rose resistance Part III

    4th March 2020
  • COVID-19,  History,  Thought-provoking

    Time to make peace with nature … but how?

    9th October 2020 / No Comments

    (7 minute read) Richard Bauckham ponders the great challenge to creation posed by our everyday destructiveness.

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    Richard Bauckham

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    Taking a bit of heaven into hell …

    7th May 2021

    Walls, walls everywhere …

    10th June 2020

    A headteacher’s pandemic diary

    8th February 2021
  • Art & Culture,  History

    Grimy glory: lessons in beauty from sewage-plants and run-down buildings

    9th October 2020 / No Comments

    (7 minute read) Self-confessed commoner Adam Brocklehurst explains how the aristocratic Lucinda Lambton has helped him see the world around him with new eyes.

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    Adam Brocklehurst

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    Half a kilo of hope and a bag of resilience please …

    15th February 2021

    The Lampedusa Cross

    25th June 2021

    Faking the past: when debunking becomes distorting

    12th November 2021
  • History,  Thought-provoking

    On graves and greatness

    8th October 2020 / No Comments

    (4 minute read) Walking through graveyards in Scotland and Italy becomes a surprisingly life-affirming experience for Leonard Franchi.

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    Leonard Franchi

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    The Tayside Derby: a game of two halves

    28th April 2021

    Lost in golden times: how a 20th century literary masterpiece could help you cope with Covid woes

    31st March 2020
    women together

    When society comes apart at the seams

    13th May 2022
  • History,  Thought-provoking

    Guarding the guardians: what constitutes ‘good’ religion?

    2nd October 2020 / No Comments

    (12 minute read) Having argued that not all forms of religion are positive, Joseph Evans proposes criteria to distinguish the good from the bad.

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    Joseph Evans

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    The making of the great British Christmas

    13th December 2020

    The likeness of Agnes Bamber

    22nd June 2022

    From pagan Yule to carols and cribs

    16th December 2021
  • Art & Culture,  History

    Did I really see what I think I saw? Optical illusion in historical and contemporary art

    2nd October 2020 / No Comments

    (6 minute read) Seeing is believing - if you can believe what you see. Carolyn Morrison discovers an art form which makes us “think anew about what we see and how we see it.”

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    Sr. Carolyn Morrison RA

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    When tigers used to smoke: why we still love fairy stories

    3rd June 2021

    We need to read

    13th July 2021

    Finding middle ground: A review of The Two Popes film

    24th January 2020
  • History,  Social Issues,  Thought-provoking

    Nigeria at 60: A future yet to flower

    1st October 2020 / No Comments

    (6 minute read) Joshua Nwachukwu casts an eye over the light and shadows which mark Nigeria’s 60th anniversary as a modern independent nation.

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    Joshua Nwachukwu

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    The efficiency of evil: Auschwitz and the detail of genocide

    14th October 2020

    Life lessons from Roman splendour

    20th February 2021

    The destruction of Palmyra and the rebirth of Syria

    6th May 2022
  • Art & Culture,  History

    Mosque, church or secular space? Hagia Sophia and the battle for modern Turkey

    21st September 2020 / 1 Comment

    (6 minute read) When is a museum not a museum? When it was once a cathedral and then a mosque and is now a mosque again as a politician’s attempted ace card to revive his flagging fortunes. Cihan Eroglu reports.

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    Cihan Eroglu

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    Did I really see what I think I saw? Optical illusion in historical and contemporary art

    2nd October 2020

    Child’s Song

    25th November 2019

    Panning for gold in thrift stores

    4th June 2021
  • Art & Culture,  History

    A traveller in the village called Rome

    8th September 2020 / 4 Comments

    (4 minute read) Leonardo Franchi contrasts the simple lanes of village life in rural Italy with the panting heart of the Eternal City, and finds they have much in common.

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    Leonard Franchi

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    Panning for gold in thrift stores

    4th June 2021

    Love, loss and … literature

    10th September 2021

    The hidden meaning of Christmas art

    24th December 2021
  • History,  Social Issues,  Thought-provoking

    Ethno-religious nationalism in an age of anxiety

    3rd September 2020 / No Comments

    (9 minute read) The hijacking of faith by populism is a growing phenomenon around the globe. In this article Nora Fisher-Onar and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk detail the growing influence of ethno-religious nationalist sentiment as a response to the fading promises of 20th century liberalism.

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    Nora Fisher-Onar and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk

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    Performance at the theatre

    A visual work-out: it’s time to take another look at classic movies and the theatre

    22nd September 2021

    Can we teach children to be good?

    14th July 2021

    Triumph and tragedy at the registrar

    10th April 2020
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