Alice in Wonderland at 150: innocent fantasy or dark and druggy?
Is it just an innocent tale of a child’s dream-like adventure, or is there more to it than at first meets the eye?
Rosa Silverman, Telegraph, 4 July 2015

Porto Revival
Monocle films visits Porto to discover how one city leader is determined to stop gentrification destroying his city.
Cesare Serventi with Gillian Dobias, Monocle, July 2015

Today's Media Influences on Young Children
Children are inundated with messages from the popular media, and may interpret them differently than adults.
Mary Renck Jalongo, Scholastic

The Birth of a Nation
Comprising a decade of archival research and published on the 100th anniversary of the film's release, this richly detailed study considers both the film's afterlife and the artistic, industrial and moral surroundings in which it was created.
Paul McEwan, British Film Institute, May 2015

Why do we like video games?
Play serves a function that enables us to learn new skills, explore new ways of handling old challenges and perhaps learn new techniques for new challenges as well.
Naked Scientists, 27 April 2015

New law bans smoking in closed public spaces, nicotine in e-cigarettes
Portugal's government has approved amendments to the law on tobacco that foresee the prohibition of electronic cigarettes containing nicotine and of smoking in all closed public spaces.
TPN/ LUSA, The Portugal News, 25 April 2015

Shakespeare's Universality: here's fine revolution
Kiernan Ryan's compelling polemic sets out to reclaim the idea of Shakespeare's timeless universality from reactionary and radical critics alike.
Kiernan Ryan, Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 23 April 2015

ISIS's very modern war on the past
It is not just the museum-destroying Islamic State that yearns for a Year Zero.
Frank Furedi, spiked, 9 March 2015

Report / Lisbon: valuing the public realm
Lisbon is now giving to investment in the city’s public spaces and associated facilities, despite severe economic austerity and resource constraints.
Katy Hawkinson, Academy of Urbanism, 6 March 2015

Artistic expression should never be censored
Debating Matters' acclaimed Topic Guides place debates in a social context.
Anwar Oduro-Kwarteng, Debating Matters, 23 January 2015