Universities should introduce “privilege flags” so that admissions tutors are aware that students are from more affluent backgrounds, a widening participation charity has suggested.
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Hours spent scrolling through Instagram seeing incredible places has meant that so many of us have caught the wanderlust bug. This is made worse by travel blogs such as ‘World of Wanderlust’ that tell us stories of adventures to faraway places and capture our imagination. This wanderlust then leads us to a moment when we’re sat staring at a screen having just booked a flight to somewhere, thinking ‘what do I do now?’. Then comes the scary part, having to actually prepare for a trip.
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Lucy Martin looks at the implications of the decision of a Barcelona school to remove books they deemed to be sexist from the library.
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The University of Liverpool has been criticised for discriminating disabled students and failing to address accessibility issues.
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No internship? That doesn't mean that your summer will be a waste of time. Lucy Martin shares her tips on planning for an internship-free summer.
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Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate is a thrilling, magical and heartwarming novel that has taken pride of place as my book of the month. A friend suggested it after a lecture on the Mexican Revolution, as the novel is set in the period. It’s perfect for history lovers and...
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Literature has an amazing way of creating wanderlust with its elaborate descriptions of beautiful places inspiring readers to travel to the places featured in our favourite books. Whether it makes you want to go to Scotland or Thailand, we can definitely take our inspiration from literature. David Nicholls’ One Day...
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Literary tattoos are a great way for book lovers to express their love of literature visibly on their skin. Pinterest and Instagram are full of beautiful odes to the novels that have touched the hearts of many. This can include quotes from books and poems, drawings to represent images on...
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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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As readers we can learn a lot about history from literature of the period and the Roaring Twenties is an era often represented in literature. It saw a variety of social and cultural changes with which came a new kind of literature, expressed by the growth of the ‘Lost Generation’...
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Christmas books have a whole range of traditions within them and often themes related to important things around this time of year, reminding readers what they love about the holidays. A popular theme amongst Christmas novels is romance, because readers typically love to enjoy wintery romances around this time of...
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Lucy Martin discusses how Kate Tempest's work has succeeded in opening up the often-deemed elitist world of poetry to a young generation who are equally disillusioned with the state of the world around them.
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