How and when to start revising for your maths exams. Tips and tricks to help you get started with your revision process. During my career as a teacher, I have spoken to students about preparing for exams many times. I have talked about preparation, timetables, and the absolute necessity for exam practice. To my surprise, […]
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St Giles-in-the-Fields: History of a London Parish – Wil James
St Giles-in-the-Fields: History of a London Parish presents a new history of the district at the very centre of London – a place that many people don’t even know exists. The history of St Giles has rarely been glamorous, but it is packed with the stories of lives touched by many of the most momentous events […]
Lynne Dixon on Publishing ‘That Tiresome Lady Architect’
My introduction to the eponymous ‘tiresome lady architect’ is fixed in my mind. She was, I was told, a vicar’s wife who had once built a house without stairs. The factual information I was given as a starting point for my role as a researcher in a U3A Shared Learning Project was: Mrs Dott, the […]
Expressing Reflections on Life through Poetry by Sheila Hopkins
Expressing my reflections on life through poetry has been something I have engaged in for about forty years. Along the way, I have shared my poems with family and friends who have encouraged me to think about publishing them. As I hadn’t got a clue how to go about it, I put the idea on […]
‘The Fight for the South Downs’ by Robin Crane
“The Fight for the South Downs” is the extraordinary, almost unbelievable story of South Downs Campaign which fought for twenty years to achieve National Park status for the South Downs. After an initial meeting of seven people in 1990 the campaign grew to a body representing 159 national, regional and local community groups by the […]
‘Miracles’ by Marguerite Coutinho
I have always loved books even as a child. I used to rush to the bookshop to buy books whenever I got my pocket money, and I thought I would love to write a book someday, perhaps when I retire. So, I wrote “Miracles”, a partly factual and fictional version of the gospel accounts of the miracles that […]
‘Types of Landscape in Great Britain’ by Andrew H. Dawson
Locked down by Covid in the spring of 2020, I needed a major project to occupy my time. Long since freed from the need to write papers of the sort that would appeal to politically-correct editors of academic journals in the soi-disant social ‘sciences’, and anxious to attempt a rehabilitation of a much neglected field […]
A Brief Biography of my Path to Publishing my First Book: Marleigh Hillier
I have always been a keen writer ever since first learning how to use a pen. Throughout childhood I wrote stories for friends in the format of Role Play Gaming, and as I matured I began writing science fiction and fantasy novels. The main barrier I faced as an aspirational author was courage. Being quite […]
‘Spokes From The Wheel Of Life’ by J. A. Scott
My Poetry Journey Being a psychotherapist for many years and never being one to burden others with my own problems I soon realised that it was easier for me to express myself through poetry, making light of what is often serious, finding humour in difficult everyday situations and finding solutions within the words I write. […]
‘Unplanned’ and how it was very much planned, by Robert Davis MA MBE DL
After more than thirty-six years as an elected councillor in the City of Westminster, at the heart of London, the establishment and political life, I retired from politics having held some of the most important and influential jobs in local government. These included my ten years as Deputy Leader, my seventeen years as political head of […]
