Anne Brontë | Georgia L. Gilholy
Enter “Anne Brontë” into your search engine of choice and every few webpages you scroll past will express an urgent need to celebrate the ‘unsung’ of the famed literary trio. This surge in interest...
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Sophie Sandor: Most kids are trapped in schools they wouldn’t choose (Part II)
We need there to be less regulation so that entrepreneurs can come in and set up schools more easily.
Sophie Sandor: It costs very little to get a culture right (Part I)
In 2010 Eton sent more students to Oxford and Cambridge than the total of pupils admitted who had received free school meals. Two-thirds of 16 to 24-year-olds cannot name the year in which the...
Golden Age For Whom? | Georgia L. Gilholy
This piece was originally published with ConservativesGlobal I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. Albert Einstein Last month former UK Business Secretary Vince...
An Open Letter to Jesus College Cambridge | Georgia L. Gilholy
On November 9th MailOnline reported that Jesus College Cambridge would be removing its chapel’s memorial to a seventeenth benefactor Tobias Rustat. Rustat advised King Charles II and was a “major investor” in the Royal...
The Double-Edged Sword of French Secularism | Georgia L. Gilholy
I am not French. I do not speak French. I have visited France, but only a handful of times. The France I have explored most is one that no longer exists, if it ever...
Auden’s Ode to Ecumenism | Georgia L. Gilholy
Born in York in 1907, and educated at Oxford, W. H. Auden was already a celebrated poet by his mid-twenties. In the midst of personal success and impending war in Europe, Auden emigrated to...
Mary Wollstonecraft & More | Georgia Leatherdale-Gilholy
Bring up eighteenth and nineteenth-century “proto”-feminism in conversation and most people will draw a blank, and fair enough. The British education system’s approach to history is haphazard at best, and most of us have...
The Sinister Myth of Soviet Anti-imperialism | Georgia Leigha Leatherdale Gilholy
The definition of imperialism is a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through colonisation, use of military force, or other means. The definition of colonisation is the policy or practise of acquiring...
The De-Education of Britain | Georgia Leatherdale-Gilholy
British schools shut their doors on March 18th as part of the plan to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, and it is unknown how or when they will open again. Families with economic and...
