Before the invention of the gummed envelope in the 1830s, how did people secure their private letters? The answer is letterlocking—the ingenious process of...

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The former schools minister says it may be time to return to make the study of a foreign language compulsory at GCSE

An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.

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Creative Australia has today revealed the shortlist for the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the richest literary prize in the nation.

Australian poems by Australian poets are at the heart of Red Room Poetry, an organisation devoted to creating, publishing and promoting the reading and writing of great new work.

A north London school hall is to be restored to its 1960s appearance and become home to the UK’s first Museum of Brutalist Architecture (MoBA) after it secured a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant.

This blog is based on the article by Gillian Pink, ‘L’allégorie d’Alcibiade et le dossier génétique de Candide’, recently published in the Revue Voltaire 24 (2025), p.239-251. Deciding to read Volt…