In the last week of half-term, the Classics department organised a trip to Cambridge to see a student performance in Greek of Sophocles’ “Oedipus […] Read More
Category: Humanities
Geography, History, Religious Studies, Classics, Philosophy,
The Ancient Greek trip started well, with us leaving the school to get a train to Cambridge. The town was bustling and as we walked […] Read More
The Bell Jar is a feminist work of art, representing the constraints that modern society placed on women of the 1950s and 60s and the […] Read More
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” -Mary Wollstonecraft Henry Winter is cold […] Read More
When Henry VII won the Battle of Bosworth, he became King of England, but was then faced with the task of legitimising his somewhat spurious claim to the throne. […] Read More
Night-time’s black blurs all around, save sound. Through my window ajar travels a stride, Stomp, step, plod. I fancy figure bound To see a […] Read More
by Harin Turrell Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ opens with the following line (its preface to be precise): ‘The artist is the creator […] Read More
Written by Kate Tidmarsh ‘A Handful of Dust’ is a novel which I initially suspected to be another of Evelyn Waugh’s classical comedic novels, where […] Read More
Written by Millie Acers ‘Musical theatre has always been the terrain of woman and girls,’ writes the Princeton University Professor of Theatre, Stacy Wolf, ‘from […] Read More
Review of The National Theatre’s production of Antony and Cleopatra Simon Godwin’s production of Antony and Cleopatra stars Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as the […] Read More