Combat and poetry in the Vaucluse
Fabienne Bonnet, Bye-Fellow from 2011 to 2016, introduces her translation of a poem by René Char (1907-1988), poet and Resistance hero.
Building a career around climate
Recent Homerton graduate Liam Cawthorne is turning a lifelong interest in climate change in a long-term career plan.
Portrait of a Young Woman, Seated
In the latest in his series of personal musings on some of the Fitzwilliam’s treasures, Philip Stephenson introduces us to the lives and loves of early 20th century artistic Paris.
Why does a university need an art collection?
Luke Syson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum gave the 2021 Kate Pretty Lecture on the purposes of a University museum collection. The complete lecture is available here.
Trust me, I’m a politician
Do politicians keep their promises? Have they ever? Richard Toye and David Thackeray give us the historical perspective, through the lens of an artefact from 1929.
Your Soundtrack for Easter vac, courtesy of Hom students
From lockdown in a dozen locations, Homerton students rose to the challenge of the 2021 Music Performance Competition. A playlist to cheer your day!
I’m hungry. Whose fault is that? And who should fix it?
Food poverty in the UK has quadrupled in the last year, as the nation faces Covid-19. Luckily, footballers are on hand to help: but perhaps that’s not the best way of solving this? Sam Strong explores the politics of responsibility.
The Wages of Silence
‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity’, wrote Yeats. Penned the day after a violent incursion into the US Capitol, Homerton’s Bill Foster - an historian both of Nazi Germany and the modern United States - considers how silence enables destruction.
Christmas Corner at the Fitz
In the Fitzwilliam Museum, there is a glorious corner where three Renaissance paintings of the Adoration of the Shepherds huddle together. Philip Stephenson tells their story.
Armistice Day 2020
At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, Homertonians gather in the Great Hall to commemorate the fallen… except this year. This is what happened instead.
Too close to call
The US Presidential election is fast becoming a reality TV drama of its own. As things stand, at 8:15am in Cambridge (that’s 3:15am Eastern Standard Time) things are unclear. Currently, the Associated Press have Biden on 238 Electoral College votes, and Trump not far behind on 213.
Letters to the locked-in: Simon Evans
As West House and its 223 residents went into self-isolation in October, our alumni asked if they could send messages of support.
Here’s a cracker from Simon Evans (BA Education with English and Drama 2003-6), writer and star of Staged.
Letters to the locked-in: Liam Williams
As West House and its 223 residents went into self-isolation in October, our alumni asked if they could send messages of support.
Here Liam Williams (BA English 2006-9), comedian and writer, confesses to crime, sort of.
Beyond Blues: the psychology of grit
Alice White recalls advice from two sports psychologists: advice which is helping her in daily life in a pandemic
We shouldn’t be afraid of calling Churchill a racist
Richard Toye dares to call Winston Churchill a racist - and also to appreciate other facets and attributes of this extraordinary figure.
Cricket in the time of corona
Director of Studies in Engineering Dr Miles Stopher muses on past cricketing glories and has an awkward encounter with his schoolboy past
Testing times: An ethical framework for swab testing of NHS workers for COVID-19
Who gets priority for testing? Do your colleagues get told about your positive result? Can you decline to take a test? And how far can you trust the result anyway? Important questions in any profession, but especially so in healthcare. Mary Dixon-Woods suggests an ethical framework for considering the answers.
Meeting a Homerton Hero in the archive
Of all Homerton’s alumni, Leah Manning has a claim to have affected the greatest number of lives for the better. Here, historian Peter Cunningham celebrates some new Manning material acquired by the College archive
Sharing music from a distance
With students scattered to their homes, Homerton College Music Society decided separation was no reason not to stage a performance competition.
Rhinos: Culture, Colonialism and Conservation
Oscar Wilson writes about historical perceptions of rhinos, in this lovely and pioneering article - the first contribution by a student writer to the Homersphere!