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Mary Leapor worked as a servant at Edgcote House and documented the goings on below stairs in her poetry.
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Mary Leapor worked as a servant at Edgcote House and documented the goings on below stairs in her poetry.

Maitland was an educated, intellectual and self-determining woman and who found (and, sadly, lost) her big love.

Suitable spots for establishing human outposts at the south pole are finite.

London probably won’t disappear beneath the waves. But we still need to understand the most dangerous outcomes that remain possible – and avoidable.

Concern about the viability of ongoing economic growth offers a chance to spotlight accessible reading about fairer economies.

Skills shortages affect businesses as well as job seekers.

In Mozambique growth and employment are becoming disconnected, and so are skills and opportunity.

Youth employment programmes need to be built around real jobs, capable institutions and the young people they are meant to serve.

Simonetta Vespucci died suddenly at 23. Centuries later, her portraits may explain what really happened.

Instead of schools trying to replace teachers with AI, teachers could use AI to become better educators.

The beating of Sen. Charles Sumner in 1856 by Rep. Preston Brooks over a speech against slavery sparked a nationwide debate over free speech, political violence and the relationship between the two.

Now as then, the US supported forces that wanted to change the political situation in Venezuela.