Author: Christina Vassell
Studying the Liberal Arts has been a long-founded in Western, and perhaps Eastern society. The social history of the Liberal Arts dates back to the classical tradition of the trivium in Ancient Greece that prescribed the...
The vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 was one of the most divisive moments in the UK’s modern political history, with 17.4 million people choosing to leave the EU...
Derbyshire and the Peak District has not produced a Charles Dickens or a William Shakespeare but has attracted a wide range of literary visitors and admirers over the years. The relationship between Derbyshire and...
Perhaps the most famous story about a pilgrimage is Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and now literary tourism, a new form of secular pilgrimage, has now become an increasingly popular way of connecting readers with their...
You may have come across the term the “Internet of Things”, a phrase that has came to encompass everything that is already connected to the internet such as PCs and mobile devices but also...
In the wake of the fire that engulfed parts of the Notre Dame last night in Paris, the centuries-old cathedral is more than just a scene of tragedy. It is the beating heart of...
With World Book Day – an annual event commissioned by UNESCO in 1995 to promote reading and publishing – being celebrated across the United Kingdom and Ireland recently (7th March), it is only fitting...
The founder of the #MeToo campaign, Tarana Burke, has expressed concerns that the movement has been hijacked by mainstream media as a “witch-hunt” with the purpose of defaming masculinity as “fundamentally toxic”. The campaign...
China’s “Big Brother” social rating system is still striving for Utopia despite comparisons to an Orwellian nightmare China, with currently a population of 1.4 billion people, has recently emerged as a technological superpower with...
Russia and Japan have been engaged in a decades-long dispute over the four islands located in the Kuril territory. It is a conflict that dates back to World War II when Soviet Forces seized...