London is a city famous for its history, which extends over 2000 years. With its foundations dating back to the Roman conquest of Britain, London has endured plague, devastating fire, turbulent royal leadership, civil war, and aerial bombardment, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Withstanding all that, London...
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Recent government data has revealed new information, and reinforced other research, about arts attendance and participation across England. The statistics highlight artistic engagement by age, socio-economic status, ethnicity, and gender across 326 local authorities in England. This data will be used by Arts Council England to guide a £37 million...
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For the very first time, after decades of campaigning, the University of Warwick’s Sabbatical Office team announced earlier in the year that Warwick will be getting a lecture-free Freshers Week. Often depicted by the media as an excuse for students to go on a week-long binge drinking session, Freshers Week capitalises...
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Across most of the world, space exploration is almost synonymous with NASA. Having recently celebrated its 60th birthday, there’s no doubt about the contributions that NASA has made to science. But, being the leading player in the space race comes at cost. Is the cost of space exploration and a...
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I’m not ashamed to admit I’m the type of person who gets excited over new pens and refuses to write in certain notebooks for no other reason than that they are simply ‘too pretty’. Given that the new academic year is not far away, I will soon be able to...
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Coventry is set to be the UK’s City of Culture in 2021, and there are plenty of reasons why it deserves to be just that. It’s time to stop viewing the lively metropolitan borough as a World War II bomb site that should be avoided. Coventry has a lot to...
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The University of Warwick has released plans to invest £54.3 million in a new Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building (IBRB) on the Gibbet Hill campus by 2020.
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August 10th marks the release of a new Netflix original entitled Insatiable. The show, which dubs itself as ‘a coming of rage story’ follows the story of a ‘fat’ bullied teenager who turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge on her bullies after losing weight, having...
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The global games audience is estimated to be around 2.2 to 2.6 billion people; this means that 2.2-2.6 billion of us play video games. The attraction to gaming is pretty obvious, it’s a fun and entertaining way to spend some time, and we’ve all heard from the critics who claim...
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The UK has seen a start to summer like it hasn’t in a long time, and the majority of our population are celebrating this by basking in the sun, enjoying all the World Cup, Wimbledon and cricket excitement that’s on offer. However, for those of us not quite beach-body ready,...
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Ben Howard’s career began with the release of his first EP in 2008, entitled Games in the Dark, and he then hit mainstream charts with his double-platinum Every Kingdom LP in 2011. Howard tasted immediate success and continued to do so, winning a Brit Award for Best Male Solo Artist...
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2011 gave us Gnomeo & Juliet, the re-telling of the classic Shakespearean play ‘Romeo and Juliet’, and 2018 is not one to disappoint. Enter Sherlock Gnomes. While both these films have A-list voices and bring famous works of literature to a younger audience, the gnome franchise is one ‘gnomebody’ (am...
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Term three is a time where deadlines are looming over our heads, and exams are fast approaching. During this time, it is widely known that our mental health takes a kick, and often, self-care is put into the passenger seat, as we steer our way through to the end of...
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