- Date
- 08 July 2016 - 15:37
What did Europe mean to Shakespeare?
Professor Michael Dobson argues that Shakespeare was a champion of free movement, and averse to insular nationalism.
- Tags
- Shakespeare, Arts, Theatre, Literature
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- Date
- 29 June 2016 - 12:57
How to get film-based lessons right
Have you ever shown films to your class, or considered setting up a film club? Daryn Simon, Head of History at Ysgol Bryn Alyn, and Beatrix Clark of Into Film share some advice.
- Tags
- Film, Schools, Arts, Teaching resources, Teaching
- Date
- 09 June 2016 - 05:30
What if Shakespeare had been a woman?
Drawing on the histories of female writers and performers in England, Dr Emma Whipday of King's College London asks what might have become of Shakespeare if he had been a woman.
- Tags
- Shakespeare, Arts
- Date
- 12 April 2016 - 15:45
Why did a young female Russian novelist pretend to be a man?
Award-winning young Russian writer Alisa Ganieva published her first long story under a secret male pen name. She told us why.
- Tags
- Literature, Arts
- Date
- 17 March 2016 - 19:07
One man's experience of being gay in Nigeria
Bisi Alimi, a Nigerian activist who received death threats after he came out tells us about his experience growing up in his home country.
- Tags
- Film, Arts, Equal opportunities and diversity
- Date
- 17 March 2016 - 11:14
Can film change how we see same-sex relationships?
Briony Hanson, the British Council's director of film, talks about how film can challenge and educate.
- Tags
- Film, Arts, Equal opportunities and diversity
- Date
- 24 February 2016 - 14:46
'Fashion is a beautiful thing'
At London Fashion Week 2016, we spoke to four rising stars in the British Council's International Fashion Showcase about the future of international high fashion.
- Tags
- Fashion, Arts
- Date
- 03 February 2016 - 05:09
How art helped these children traumatised by war
Filmmaker Sara Ishaq relates how a four-day art workshop helped give a degree of solace to Yemeni children made homeless by war.
- Tags
- Civil society, Arts
- Date
- 21 December 2015 - 16:56
Sir Andrew Motion on Shakespeare's legacy (podcast)
Sir Andrew Motion, former British Poet Laureate, talks to journalist Georgina Godwin about his native UK as a 'country of Shakespeare', and explains how the Bard has influenced his work.
- Tags
- Arts, Literature, Shakespeare
- Date
- 08 December 2015 - 11:14
Five Nigerian novelists you should read
Which writers are making waves on Nigeria's literary scene at the moment? Publisher and academic Emma Shercliff, who specialises in African literature, gives us her top five recommendations.
- Tags
- Arts, Literature