The Valley of the Fallen, one of the most visited national monuments in Spain, remains a powerful symbol of the 1936-1939 Civil War. In the state-funded mausoleum, situated on the outskirts of Madrid, lie the remains of 40,000 victims from both sides of the conflict. But for the past 40...
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If, like me, you’d heard countless stories about the ruin pubs, baths and crazy nightlife that Budapest is famous for, you might be forgiven for desperately wanting to go. This past summer, my friends and I went on a whistle stop tour of Europe by interrail, and our last stop...
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Historical fiction is defined as a genre which takes place in a setting located in the past. But how much creative license is allowed when there’s a risk that the book can be taken as factually correct about a certain time period? Should we expect them to be historically accurate,...
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The second eldest women’s college in the United States of America, Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, will accept transgender and non-binary students from the start of the 2019/2020 academic year.
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Guinness World Records have confirmed an attempt made by several Warwick students to build the World’s Largest Blanket Fort, confirmed as 432.16m²
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As a new year begins, we can look ahead to lots more news shows and old shows returning. But what about the shows that aren't making it back on the box this year? Four of our writers tell us what shows they would like to see return in 2019.
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Students at universities across the UK have been fined £534,000 from 2015 to 2018, with the top reason being antisocial behaviour, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by The Independent has revealed.
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Ellie Dixon came to university a keen mathematics student, from the city of Cambridge and with a hobby that she didn’t think would become anything bigger: music. The Warwick third-year began performing at the age of thirteen after undertaking GCSE Music lessons which brought together her piano-playing and newfound vocal...
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New official figures have revealed that the Conservative Party’s education reforms are giving private school pupils a higher chance to enter further education and various careers by allowing them to sit easier GCSEs. Research into the exams chosen by private schools and data from parliamentary answers shows that private schools...
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What is blackfishing? Well, simply put, it is exploitative and wrong. To give a definition, it is a term used for when a non-black person uses make-up or unnatural tanning methods to alter their complexion in order to make themselves look black. Additionally, they may, surgically or using make-up, alter...
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Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective has known many faces throughout his life, and Will Ferrell is the latest with a comedic take on the character. Or, at least, that’s how it should be – Holmes & Watson is a dreadful watch that fails to conjure up many laughs, wasting its...
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The representation of female and male roles and dominant gender identities throughout literature offered us insights into how relations in society existed. These presentations changed with the passage of time, as classic literature often has hegemonic masculinity involving the subordination of women. However, as time progressed, the character of the strong,...
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Reece Goodall reports on a new technique to shrink objects to the nanoscale, and some of the fascinating implications it may have.
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