In the interview Harrison said that his academic success was due to the 1944 Education Act and six scholarships. How many children today, coming from working class backgrounds, have the opportunity of learning Latin & Greek? The study of classics will soon be as exclusive a privilege as it was before universal education. Where are the Tony Harrisons of the future?
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In the interview Harrison said that his academic success was due to the 1944 Education Act and six scholarships. How many children today, coming from working class backgrounds, have the opportunity of learning Latin & Greek? The study of classics will soon be as exclusive a privilege as it was before universal education. Where are the Tony Harrisons of the future?
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Georgette Heyer and the battle of Waterloo
I can just imagine some people sneering at the very idea of reading a book by a romantic novelist as a painless way of learning about Waterloo.…
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Book Titles
While I was watching The Tempest the other evening, I kept hearing book titles. These are the ones which sprang to mind. Prospero’s Cell, Lawrence…
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Bizarre statistics
Promoting Indistractable, a new book by Nir Eyal, Bloomsbury Books send me an email containing the following unlikely-sounding ‘facts’. 67% of men…