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New school starters not ready for learning

Published
4 October 2024
Categories
Society & Politics
Health
Research

A third of children starting reception class in England are not ready for school, with long term consequences, new research has shown.

Councillor Abigail Marshall Katung, Lord Mayor of Leeds, and poet Khadijah Ibrahim view the plaque

Blue plaque highlights anti-slavery history of Leeds

Published
2 October 2024
Categories
University
Arts & Culture
Research

Campaigners who were at the forefront of the global movement to abolish slavery, including Wilson Armistead, are being honoured at the University of Leeds.

Etching of the Royal Exchange, showing the courtyard and people socialising within it.

Multilingual gossip in Elizabethan London

Published
25 September 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture
Research

Stranger churches in early modern London had ‘eyes everywhere’ to hear, spread and dispel gossip in multiple languages, according to new research.