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6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. It seems our world is becoming an increasinglyunsettled place: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, globalrefugee numbers increasing to over 100 million,China is flexing its muscles, internally and externally,and peace between

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. November is Islamophobia Awareness Month. Nowin its tenth year, the campaign was originallyestablished by a group of British organisations led byMuslim-interest charity MEND (Muslim Engagementand Development). Despite receiving

6 Mar 2023: This week Professor Robert Tombs reflects on his own experiences of Lent when he wasyounger. Dear Woolf Friends,. Lent, which begins on Shrove Tuesday, 21 February,is a time for the recollection of important matters oflife and death in preparation

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. After a long and cold winter Purim is the first holidayto start off the spring season. This is the holidaywhere Jews remember the story of Esther, her uncleMordechai, King Achashverosh and the evil Haman. There are four

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. The Woolf Research Days are a valuableopportunity to present the work of some of our bestyoung researchers to audiences in brief TED-styletalks. These occasions also give our students andacademics an opportunity to practise the

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. At the start of each new year, I find myself thinkingabout the past 12 months and wondering what I’ll bereflecting on next January when I look back at the. year just gone by. But with the Woolf Institute’s 25th. Anniversary

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. If you visit East Germany, where I was born andraised, any time in late March and April, you will begreeted by bushes full of Easter eggs and nests ofeggs on the ground in many gardens and publicparks. Germany may be most famous

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. “Do you know anyone who would be interested inworking as my PA?”, came the question from EdKessler. I did, and the rest, as they say, is history. I am thinking back on my journey at the WoolfInstitute. I first started

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Few men have the privilege and good fortune to seetheir life’s vision take shape in front of them. Ed. Kessler, whose 60th birthday we were celebratingthis week, is that rare man. But fortune played only a small part. Ed

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. When the news of the British conquest of MountEverest came through on the same day as QueenElizabeth’s coronation, it seemed too good to betrue. But the story of how that piece of news wasmanaged and gathered is less well known