Looking to the Collection with the national portrait galleryFor LGBT+ History month, I have been asked to review the National Portrait Gallery’s catalogue and pick out sitters that I would like to...
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PENGUIN: To fix the future, we need a school curriculum that accurately reflects the pastThe date on the first page of my year 10 GCSE history book reads 8th September 1999. Why have I kept an exercise book for over 21 years?...
BUSTLE: What Is Lost When Universities Go VirtualMy Parents wanted me to stay at home in London to attend university, in fact they all but forbid leaving. “Sure, you can apply outside of...
MR.PORTER: A mental health reading listMental wellbeing is always associated with the mind, but, for me, the nervous energy, the heightened anxiety, the sense of failure...
CNN STYLE: Judged for what he wore: A first-time author writes about class and clothingAt student club nights in my first few weeks of university, more than once I was asked whether I had any drugs to sell. It's true that...