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The man who knew infinity: Difficult history & dreaming spires on film
How do we re-visit history? Watching the continuation of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at Oxford I went to see The Man Who Saw Infinity with a greater consciousness of how our institutions choose to tell their own versions of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Film, History
Tagged BIG ISSUE, Cambridge, dev patel, front row, janaki ramanujan, jeremy irons, oxbridge, ramanujan, the man who knew infinity
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Anglos, Diphthongs & Perfect Snogging: Saving the German A-level
This piece was written for The Guardian in August 2012, after A-level results showed the number of UK students taking German had declined to below 5,000 for the first time. There were also significant drops in French and other modern … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Culture, Education, Film, Germany, Uncategorized
Tagged 50s, A-levels, Bachelor of Hearts, Cambridge, cinema, culture, film, Hardy Kruger, Schools, Sylvia Syms, universities
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