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How walking cricket is helping players to stay in the game

As the ball comes sailing towards me at midwicket, I instinctively start to run towards it. Not for the first time, a chorus of laughter from my fellow players reminds me I should be walking. Inevitab…

03 Nov 2026
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How to Lead It: Primary Art and Design

Developing ‘looking’ in the primary classroom

Smartphones are now banned by law in schools in England (DfE, 2026). Despite his own penchant for TikTok, Andy Burnham’s government is pressing ahead with the ban on social media for children under 16…

27 Oct 2026
Discover the plants and fungi that maim, murder and make mischief to survive

Peter Marren uncovers the stories behind the most sinister plants and fungi

Dare to enter The Devil's Garden this Halloween

I’m impressed by the capacity of certain plants and fungi to take charge of us, to disorder our minds, enter our dreams. It’s as if they are sending tendrils into our brain, twisting our perceptions,…

27 Oct 2026
Grammarsaurus: The Big Book of Morphemes book cover on a green background

Grammarsaurus – The Big Book of Morphemes

5 important tips on how to improve your spelling skills

Many popular spelling schemes teach -tion, -sion, -cion and -ssion as four different suffixes, with spelling rules and exceptions for their use. These are incorrect and overwhelming for learners. Fact…

26 Oct 2026
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The Neuroinclusive Educator

How to make learning more accessible in education

One of the young people who changed the direction of my career had achieved an exceptionally high score in Oxford University’s Thinking Skills Assessment. There was little doubt about her intellectual…

22 Oct 2026
The Longevity Delusion

Seamus O'Mahony

Debunking 6 myths of longevity

Average human lifespan doubled over the 20th century, not because medicine delayed ageing, but because of a reduction in premature mortality, because fewer infants, children and young adults died of i…

22 Oct 2026
An asset of Caesar: The Commander's Blade in paperback alongside an author photo of Peter Gibbons.

Peter Gibbons on Caesar: The Commander's Blade

“The period of the late Republic provides unbelievable material for a historical fiction novel”

The ancient world has always been my favourite part of history to explore. Whilst my readers are more familiar with my books set in the Viking Age and Dark Ages Britain, I think the core elements of t…

21 Oct 2026
Succeeding as an RE Teach book cover next to author photo of Andy Lewis

Andy Lewis on Succeeding as an RE Teacher

10 practical strategies to succeed as an RE teacher

One of the things I have become more convinced of over 20 years teaching RE, is that there is no one way to deliver the perfect RE lesson, no single route into being a great RE teacher, and certainly…

21 Oct 2026
China's African Empire book design depicting an outline of the continent of Africa merged with a Chinese golden dragon.

Paul Kenyon on China's African Empire

It began with a unicorn

It began with a unicorn, as the best stories always do. The magical beast had been spotted by the captain of China’s fifteenth century Treasure Fleet, its yam-sized head peering from above a jungle ca…

21 Oct 2026
Spooky Britain by Peter Naldrett book jacket on a dark green background.

Spooky Britain

Four of the most haunted destinations in Britain

Maybe it’s the centuries of history and the often gruesome nature of it. Maybe it’s our love of telling stories and passing them on to the next generation. Whatever the reason, Britain is a very speci…

09 Oct 2026
Photography of the finished copy of The Last Handmaid alongside an author photo of Clare Whitfield.

Clare Whitfield on The Last Handmaid

“I wanted to creep into aspects of the legends surrounding Báthory”

There are so many wild myths and legends surrounding the very real person that was the Countess Erzsébet Báthory, it’s so obvious they cannot be true. As one of the perpetually curious, I wanted to fi…

08 Oct 2026
Dan Jones Castles on an illustrated backdrop depicting a castle on a rocky hilltop and a knight on horseback approaching.

Dan Jones on Castles

Discover four iconic strongholds from history

Over the millennia, Troy has gone by many names. To the Greeks it was Ίλιον. To the Romans, it was Ilium. The Hittites, who ruled a powerful nearby kingdom in ancient Anatolia, called it Wil…

06 Oct 2026

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