That Mr Men Speech and Why Mr Gove Is Not Mr Right
The secret to teaching history is to empower students with a passion for the subject. Having gone to a comprehensive school in an area of [...]
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Why Young People Should Be Screened For Heart Conditions
This summer my daughter, Sophie, will graduate from Durham University. A few days ago 19-year-old Ryan Zon, a winger for Swallownest Miners Welfare Reserves was [...]
The True Story of a Bereavement Workshop
Whether it was ever Lady Godiva or Elizabeth I who rode “a cock horse to Banbury Cross” we might never know but it’s fairly safe [...]
British Libraries Are Fighting Back! And It’s Children Who Are Leading the Charge
At last great news for libraries! And it’s the children who are putting their giant stamp of authority on the matter. Not only are there [...]
BELT! Why a Black Eye Reveals More About Those That View You
In that great grand slam of life you could say I’ve achieved something Andy Murray hasn’t. It wasn’t a particularly vicious assault, but last week [...]
How to Talk to Children About Death
Caroline’s last hours in the hospice were peaceful for her but they were painful for us. When the phone call finally came to tell us [...]
Fame – Why It’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Whitney Houston said that fame “made you a personality instead of a person.” Amy Winehouse’s sudden rise to fame plunged the singer into a fatal [...]
Library Matters: if it’s not Broke Don’t Fix It
As if life isn’t tough enough for many writers. The jury may still be out on the future of ebooks v tree books and the [...]
Stonehenge – One Big Joke?
Artist Jeremy Deller may have revealed more about Stonehenge than he realised when he described his inflatable replica “Sacrilege” as a representation of“Britain’s history, culture [...]
Forget Gap Years – The “Aid Year” Is What’s Needed
The popular notion that charity begins at home was succinctly interpreted on a wider level by Bob Geldof when he said “we need to write [...]
How Rugby Could Help to Tackle Inequalities in Sport
Prince Harry may be watching the Olympic beach volleyballers compete at Horse Guards Parade but chasing balls on sandy beaches is not unusual for AngloAmerican [...]
Media Studies Or Classics? It’s a No Brainer.
Shakespeare once said “the education of circumstance is superior to that of tuition” and so when I am asked, as if often the case, about [...]
Top Tips For Writing and Selling Your Book
I could wax lyrical about the inner book and all that but hardly a day goes by when someone tells me how much they would [...]
Shakespeare The Blogging Bard? Why O-Levels Should Become E-Levels
No doubt the impact of the digital revolution will be recorded in the history books – well e-readers – in much the same way as [...]
Reciting Poetry is One Thing, Loving it Another
There is no doubt that rhythm and rhyme are valuable tools in terms of developing vocabulary. Michael Gove has just announced that, from Year 1, [...]
War And Words: How Cyber Editing Could Mean Heathcliff Becomes Boris Johnson
It may have been the typhoid fever but it took Leo Tolstoy six years to write that book. Six years of Russian sweat and tears [...]
Emily Bronte’s Shocking News!
It’s enough to spur excitement into Heathcliffe’s restless spirit. Whether Emily Bronte’s secret hoard of poems – almost two hundred of them –would ever have [...]
Balls, Body, Bodyart – Beckham Has a Defining Quality Beyond All That…
Days after Beckham’s ambassadorial arrival on British soil from Greece with the Olympic flame he announced that he felt his future was less likely to [...]
Paperbacks Vs EBooks? Easy – You Don’t Need a Charger
The Great Horse Manure crisis of 1894 caused our predecessors to get their knickers in a right twist. Writing in the Times one commentator estimated that “in [...]
Living The Life
How To Talk To Children About Death Grief feels like fear – wrote C S Lewis and when my phone rang one morning three years [...]