Public ceremonies and exhibitions will be held across Warwickshire to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, which brought an end to the Second World War in Europe. A ceremony in Royal Leamington Spa will head up the local event programme, which also includes commemorations across the local area,...
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Ireland is now the UK’s largest provider of European Union students, with numbers having grown since Brexit. According to new data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), the overall number of EU applicants to UK universities since Brexit has declined by more than half, with only 75,500 applying for...
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In 1503, Leonardo da Vinci began work on one of the (if not the) most famous paintings in the world: Mona Lisa. Da Vinci’s painting was acquired by the French King, Francis I, after he died in 1519, having spent the last years of his life in the French court....
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Despite what many fairy tales might tell you, not all stories end with a Happily Ever After. In fiction and reality, finding love (let alone the mythologised True Love) is much harder than simply going into the woods and finding a long-lost princess. Even outside of this genre, love conquering...
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More than forty years ago, Terry Pratchett introduced us to Discworld. A world that may sound and smell like our own, but looks completely different. A world that (as the name suggests) is shaped like a disc and is carried on the backs of four elephants, standing on the shell...
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