Comenius, a pioneer of lifelong learning
Teaching not by rote but through play? That's credited to the 17th-century Czech pastor and...
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Dido of Carthage: A love story gone wrong
A Phoenician princess, who fled into exile to escape the cruel king of Tyre, sailed across the...
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Paul Robeson: Singer, actor and civil rights activist
The multi-talented Paul Robeson could have turned his hand to pretty much anything he set his...
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Telling the time: From sundials to satnav
Many of us can find the time of day quickly and accurately but where did the idea of time keeping...
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Writer Jorge Luis Borges: Mixing the magical with the mundane
‘We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.' A typically...
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Elizabeth Fry: 'The angel of prisons'
Life behind bars in English prisons in the early nineteenth century was, to put it mildly, grim....
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Greenwood was an African American success story: a thriving, wealthy district of Tulsa. Over the...
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Queen Tamar: The myth of a perfect ruler
Queen Tamar was one of Georgia’s most iconic and colourful rulers, a powerful medieval sovereign...
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The Huguenots gave the word 'refugee' to the English language - they were French protestants...
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Smallpox: the defeat of the speckled monster
As scientists around the world look for ways to combat COVID-19, the only human disease ever to...
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Lal Ded, mystical Kashmiri poet
There is a great deal of mystery surrounding the poems attributed to the female Kashmiri poet,...
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The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is one of the greatest wonders of the ancient world. It is the...
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Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction
”People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.” Ray Bradbury has...
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In 476, the last of the Roman emperors in the West was deposed; in 1776, historian Edward Gibbon...
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Picasso, artist of reinvention
Pablo Picasso is commonly regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century,...
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'War and Peace' by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy charts the story of Russia during the...
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Chaucer, father of English poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer has been called the father of English poetry and the greatest poet in English...
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Tango is easy to recognise: those daring steps, the tight hold of the dancing partners, the...
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Valkyries: Fierce women of war
In Norse mythology, Valkyries were women who went out into battles to choose the slain warriors...
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Silk Routes: 2000 years of trading
China, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Uzbekistan and India: if you went to any of these places a...
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