Taras Shevchenko: The poet of Ukrainian freedom
A few years before he set up home in Upper Norwood, the African American actor Ira Aldridge toured Russia in 1858 and 1859. Among those who reacted to his acting with rapture was ‘the Ukrainian Robert...
View ArticleWhy UNESCO should declare Croydon Airport a World Heritage Site
UNESCO, World Heritage, Croydon – words not often seen together in the same sentence. What does Croydon have that puts it on a par with the other 981 United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural...
View ArticleOur modern heritage: why Croydon’s concrete architecture should be admired
“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.” “Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.” “When we build, let us think...
View ArticleCoherent education policy for Croydon, or moving the chairs on the Titanic?
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping once famously said: “It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.” The structure of educational institutions does not matter so long as the...
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