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New Scientist Live

25 September 2018 Science

I visited New Scientist Live at Excel on Friday, which is an annual event aimed at popularising science, promoted by the weekly popular science magazine. There were a wide range of exhibitors, a mixture of learned societies, universities, technology companies,...

William Blake’s Grave

25 September 2018 Untold lives

The Bunhill Fields Burial Grounds are the final resting place for around 120,000 people including Daniel Defoe, John Bunyan, Susanna Wesley, and William Blake. Previously, Blake’s precise location in the cemetery was unknown but thanks to Carol and Luis Garrido’s...

The Queen’s poetry book: Hamidah Banu’s Divan-i Hijri

24 September 2018 Asian and African studies

It is well established that the Mughal royal ladies were highly educated and could read and write in several languages. For example Babur’s daughter Gulbadan wrote her own autobiography (A Mughal princess's autobiography ) and Princess Jahanara completed a life...

Banned Books Week 2018 has landed: 50 years of creative freedom on the British stage

24 September 2018 English and Drama

Or The Misadventures of Slangwheezy, Bawlrot, Bluewink and Leerit Banned Books Week 2018 has arrived and this year our theme is theatre censorship, prompted by the fact that this week sees the 50th anniversary of the laying down of the...