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Head Hand Heart
21 December 202021 December 2020

Head Hand Heart

Books by Harley Richardson0 comments

Santa has brought us some unexpected history of education content this Christmas, hidden between the covers of David Goodhart’s latest book. Goodhart is a journalist, commentator and former director of the think tank Demos. His previous book, The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics (2017), introduced the categories ‘Anywheres’ and ‘Somewheres’ to the political lexicon […]

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The bad-tempered backstory of ‘Town Versus Gown’
2 September 20205 October 2022

The bad-tempered backstory of ‘Town Versus Gown’

Articles by Harley Richardson4 comments

The concept of ‘town versus gown’ goes all the way back to the founding of medieval universities, and has played an integral, if not always noble, role in their development.

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