With only a few weeks to go until the Easter holidays, we’re all trying to keep our heads up and smile through the pain of writing a million essays. The weather should be getting better, even though it isn’t really, but at least it doesn’t get dark at three o’clock in the afternoon! Get a Continue Reading
Your Careers Update!
The countdown to Easter is now officially on, which is great news for all those stressed-out students. It’s really important to be thinking about careers now, especially if you are a final year and haven’t spent much time researching this. Worry not, however; we have tons of information from The Careers Service to give to Continue Reading
Film in History: Films which best recreate the setting of the historical landscape
The big screen has had a love affair with history since technological advancement enabled the production of historical epics. From 1927’s Napoléon vu par Abel Gance, an impressive five hour silent epic to 2016’s World War II thriller Hacksaw Ridge. The events of history offer screenwriters the potential to create more encapsulating, heart-breaking and thought Continue Reading
Gerald Kaufman: A Biography
After a long-lasting battle with illness, Sir Gerald Kaufman, father of the House of Commons and the UK’s oldest sitting MP, passed away 26 February 2017. Kaufman, the son of Polish, Jewish immigrants, was born in Leeds in 1930. After attending Leeds Grammar School, he studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford- Continue Reading
100 Years Since: The Russian Revolutions
2017 marks the centenary of the tumultuous year that brought an end to Tsarism in Russia, unfolding into seventy years of Communist rule, and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. In fact, 1917 featured two revolutions: the February Revolution, which succeeded in ending over 300 years of rule by the Romanov Dynasty, followed Continue Reading