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As educators, we know that if we really want our children to learn about something, it takes time. It’s very likely that we’ll have to teach a topic in lots of different ways, revisit it multiple time…
12 Jan 2024
In the early 1990s, and for nearly a decade, I was a civilian contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense, assigned first in Belarus and, later, in Kazakhstan. My job was to assist in the dismantlem…
14 Dec 2023
Scottish and Scandinavian traditions involve burning a huge ornamental candle, often in festive shades of red and green or decorated with holly or other evergreens. As the timing of festive celebratio…
30 Nov 2023
As someone who has always been passionate about ancient languages, history and culture, I am thrilled to be on the judging panel for the Bloomsbury A Love for Classics student competition! I’m really…
The true crime that inspired my novel, The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou, had me hooked from the start. In 1954, Styllou Christofi, a 53-year-old Cypriot grandmother, came to England to visit her so…
29 Nov 2023
Making a garland or shorter swag is a good way to create a lot with a little, and is quicker to make than a wreath if time isn’t on your side. Not only do they save space, but they will bring the seas…
28 Nov 2023
This festive make fills me with the most nostalgia. The dough is made from three household ingredients and is so simple to make yet looks really effective, and can be customised into different designs…
Throughout my screenwriting career I often thought, wistfully, about the notion of writing a novel. Partly to see if I was capable of creating prose in that form, but also because I felt it might in s…
22 Nov 2023
Skipper’s Medical Emergency Handbook is a valuable compendium of knowledge on how to anticipate and mitigate medical risks of voyages at sea, whether coastal or transoceanic. It also provides an excel…
13 Nov 2023
I am lucky to be able to do what I love: developing leaders, teams and organisations. I have done it in my former roles as Chief Human Resources Officer at the World Economic Forum and EBRD and Chief…
08 Nov 2023
The tide had retreated late that evening, laying a ledge of grey sand in its wake where all else now sparkled in the dusk like a desert of broken glass. For too long, this was all she’d dreamt of – a…
31 Oct 2023
When I was eleven years old, my mother gave me a pair of gold sandals. These were for ‘best’, and not at all suitable for school. In all my life so far I had worn socks and sensible lace-ups to school…
27 Oct 2023
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