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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

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Ramadan is coming! Ramadan is a time of the year most which Muslims eagerly look forward to. Buthow can one look forward to a month of struggle and extreme hunger? Why doMuslims indeed anticipate Ramadan with such excitement? It

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

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Does interfaith work? This is a question with which the Woolf Institute, andprobably too few others, wrestle. Our Measures of Success project, completedlast year, explored the tricky topic of effectiveness and produced a

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

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. A few years ago, the Woolf Institute conducted a research project on trustbetween religious communities. Through our work, we recognised that buildingtrust between people requires positive, but also meaningful,

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

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, One of the things that distinguishes the Woolf Institute from other researchinstitutes is our strive to translate all our research into public education.Academic work sometimes has the reputation of being conducted in an