Tag: England
Spinster, old maid or self-partnered – why words for single women...
Amy Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
In a recent interview with Vogue, actress Emma Watson opened up about being a single 30-year-old woman. Instead...
Brexit: An ‘escape room’ with no escape
Terrence Guay, Pennsylvania State University
Brexit is beginning to look a lot like an “escape room” with no exit.
An escape room is an increasingly popular...
In the 1600s Hester Pulter wondered, ‘Why must I forever be...
Samantha Snively, University of California, Davis
In 1996, a graduate student named Mark Robson was creating a digital catalog of the University of Leeds’ Brotherton...
The ‘inevitable sadness’ of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction
Cynthia F. Wong, University of Colorado Denver
On a damp October day in 2006, I followed Kazuo Ishiguro and my 10-year-old daughter Grace to a...
English football holds lessons for cricket, as elites hijack the game
David Rowe, University of Western Sydney
Just as Australian cricket followers are coming to terms with the loss of the (men’s) Ashes and the impending...
EXPLORING NATURE
Formula 1 racing shows the hard part of reaching net‑zero carbon...
Caitlin Grady, George Washington University and Sachi Nandurkar, George Washington University
Formula 1 auto racing is one of the...
