One of my favourite books as a child was a bite-sized collection of Hans Christian Andersen's enchanting fairy tales. His wonderful storytelling has stayed with me so fervently that I was only recently gifted the most beautiful folio edition of my best-loved stories, yet I still can't throw the original, and now well-worn, copy away. His tales are...
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A is for Ada Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron and his mathematics loving wife, Annabella Milbanke who later became known as the 'Enchantress of Numbers'. Fearing that she would develop her father's tempestuous, poetic tendencies, Ada was brought up by her mother under a strictly mathematical and scientific regime. As a child,...
There's a reason Yorkshire is referred to as God's Own County. Scrap that, there's hundreds of reasons, actually. Alright, the South of England might have a few more jobs but it's to the North what Austen is to Bronte; drab, dull and insufferably pretentious. That might sound a little inane coming from someone who has just chosen to move there...
Perhaps it was a feeling in the air, or the fact that it was the year of my own feminist awakening, but it seemed to me that 2014 was incredibly significant for women. To identify as a feminist was suddenly fashionable, celebrities were speaking out, media exposure began highlighting solidarity and intersectionality. Countless campaigns...
A Tale of Three Cities. Have you ever been somewhere for the very first time, and yet felt like you were home? My memories of my first ever trip to Poland are vague to say the least; it was for a wedding. I remember snowy covered mountains and dancing the night away. Walks into (what seemed like) the wilderness, and lots of friendly faces. I was...
