History
Fighting totalitarianism: lessons from the White Rose resistance Part II
At a time when many academics were bowing to the Nazi system, Paul Shrimpton describes how a small group of students courageously opposed it.
What is the purpose of education?
If we want educational reform to achieve its goal, we need to know why we are educating our children, Roy Peachey argues.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard: Why writing is wonderful
Humans have used the written word for centuries, yet it is being replaced by computer work-processing. Harking back to medieval literature, Jasmine Jones discusses the beauty of writing, and our duty as humans to appreciate and preserve it.
“Never again”, the humanising power of war literature
In the aftermath of conflict, language must serve constructive ends and, crucially, suggest the necessary changes to be made in order to prevent future repetition of violence and bloodshed. Bianca Costa Sales discusses the important role of war literature.
Fighting totalitarianism: lessons from the White Rose resistance
On the morning of Thursday 18 February 1943 two German students entered the main building of the University of Munich carrying around a thousand anti-Nazi leaflets. Paul Shrimpton in the first of a series on the Scholl siblings.
