Seventy-five years ago, Norman Rockwell painted four iconic covers for The Saturday Evening Post depicting the Four Freedoms promoted by President Roosevelt: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear and Freedom from Want. The Freedoms would ultimately lead to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The iconic pictures, and other socially engaged paintings, … Continue reading “Towards Human Rights”
We’ve drawn inspiration from Dorothea Lange’s evocative photographs, soon to be on show in Paris, to invent a creative-writing competition for your B1-B2-level pupils. The “Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing” exhibition to be held at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris (Oct 2018 – Jan 2019) encompasses Lange’s major works including the iconic “Migrant … Continue reading “Dorothea Lange Competition”
The “Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing” exhibition to be held at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris (Oct 2018 – Jan 2019), originally organized by the Oakland Museum of California, encompasses Lange’s major works including (of course) the iconic “Migrant Mother” and well known documentary photographs taken during the Great Depression for the Farm … Continue reading “Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing”
Bestselling British author Sebastian Faulks will be giving two talks in Paris on 25 and 26 September around his latest novel Paris Echo. Like many of his previous books it is set in France, and draws heavily on the legacy of war. Many of Faulks’ novels are set during World Wars I and II, including … Continue reading “Meet an Author: Sebastian Faulks”
The Jeu de Paume museum in Paris is hosting an exhibition of Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange’s work from 16 October to 27 January. It’s a wonderful subject for class work, and has inspired our Ready to Use Resource and a competition for pupils. Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) documented some of the most traumatic aspects of U.S. … Continue reading “Dorothea Lange Exhibition: Teacher and Class Visits”
It was a surprise bestseller about a forgotten piece of World War Two history with an improbable title. Now The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is coming to a screen near you. It tells the story of the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands — the only part of the British Isles to … Continue reading “Guernsey, a Book Club and German Occupation”