By Vihansa Samarakkody A season of youth, activity, celebration and revolution: summer – spanning the months of June through to September, is the scale most use to measure the span of our lives, our years on Earth given value solely by the number of summer times we’ve revelled in. In Read more…
By Mia Bains Contact: 18mbains@wghs.org.uk “The masculine perspective is you have to understand that life is war. It’s a war for the female you want. It’s a war for the car you want. It’s a war for the money you want. It’s a war for the status. Masculine life Read more…
By Keira Power (18kpower@wghs.org.uk) (To submit an article to our “First Summer After COVID” theme email 18mbains@wghs.org.uk for features) Perhaps it doesn’t look dramatic, but this is considering that only about 2-5 degrees change is needed globally for our world to start becoming uninhabitable. 2022 summer heatwave Cast your mind back, Read more…
By Mia Bains, Features Contact: 18mbains@wghs.org.uk “I will unite our country not with words but with actions” Key events -Following the resignation of Liz Truss on Oct 22, a vote was held among Conservative MPs to determine the new prime minister. -This vote did not include Conservative party members, and Read more…
CONTACT: 18mbains@wghs.org.uk, 18sholt@wghs.org.uk “Grief is the price we pay for love,” -Queen Elizabeth II After 70 years reigning over our country, Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8th, 2022 at Balmoral Castle amongst her closest family. Not only did our nation mourn her death through millions of tributes, but Read more…
By Mia Bains (18mbains@wghs.org.uk) To enter a poem for this theme e-mail t.dawkins16@wghs.org.uk When I think of you,I think in two ways;Firstly cold and impassive,Abstract from the realities of my future lifeSecondly hot and protective,My future life flits between my fingersLike elusive threads of gold,Far too fragile for my callous Read more…
Mia Bains and Scarlett Holt, Features CONTACT: 18mbains@wghs.org.uk, 18sholt@wghs.org.uk There is a solemn and collective understanding that women have forever been idealised to a male standard. In the Victorian era, women were seen by men to be a demure, fatigued, and submissive counterpart to their husbands or fathers. The same Read more…