In the late 1920’s and early 30’s, my father Harry, travelled widely throughout Germany. His interests lay in art, music (particularly Wagner), architecture and contact with the „locals“. He recorded these journeys, thoughts and observations in travel diaries, illustrated with photos and picture postcards . Sometimes he would journey alone but one occasion with a […]
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As their 250th anniversaries approach, this is the story of Britain’s best-known artists, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. Born just one year apart, these two creative geniuses lived and worked in parallel, transforming the art of landscape during the early nineteenth century. Between them they raised the status of the genre, turning it into a […]
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In December 2024, the British Council celebrated its 90th anniversary. Founded in 1934, with the first overseas offices opening in 1938, we are the world’s oldest cultural relations organization. The early 1930s were a time of global instability. Britain’s influence was weakened because of a global financial depression and at the same time, extreme ideologies […]
250 years ago this December, one of the greatest novelists in the English language was born in a quiet rural village in the south of England. Publishing just four novels during her lifetime (with two more published posthumously) her writing has managed to endure over generations, spawning screen adaptations, literary tourism, academic studies, and even […]
Joanne K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series defined an era of young adult literature, both in Britain and the world. With half a billion books sold, eleven movies filmed, and a stage play produced, it is no doubt one of the most successful fantasy franchises to have ever been written. To many, it spoke about the […]
In all but the most repressive of dictatorships, ordinary people now have near universal and unrestricted access to knowledge. When we were young we turned to newspapers and TV to know what was happening in the wider world, but now the worldwide web is open to us all. Journalism, once an exclusive profession, is now […]
It feels like AI is everywhere right now, it’s certainly one of the latest buzzwords in the news, but do we really understand what it is, or how it differs from traditional technology? In this lively and accessible talk by Dr. Donna Carroll, we will explore the many, often- overlooked ways that AI is already […]
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A British Picnic in Münster behind the “Westfälischen Schule für Musik”