Angela Young

LATEST ARTICLES ( 147 )

• In the Bleak Midwinter: Rosetti & Holst

  

  In the Bleak Midwinter – words by Christina Rossetti and music by Gustav Holst (it has to be Holst for me) – is my favourite Christmas carol. Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2024 BOOKS

• A Blessing for Our Times

  

  Jan Richardson wrote this Blessing for her blog The Advent Door in 2014. It’s included in her book Circle of Grace published in 2015. Elsewhere Richardson... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2024 BOOKS

• Black History Month; Black History Studies and Nova Reid’s Student Confession

  

  October is Black History Month in the UK. But obviously Black History should be taught and celebrated every day of every year in history lessons in our... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2024 BOOKS

• Tell Climate Change Stories

  

  On last Tuesday’s The Life Scientific with Jim Al-Khalili, the guest scientist was Professor Peter Stott, a senior climate scientist at The Met Office’s Hadley... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2024 BOOKS

• ORIGIN: Ava DuVernay and Isabel Wilkerson on CASTE

  

  If you haven’t seen ORIGIN – Ava DuVernay’s film about Isabel Wilkerson’s life and why and how she came to write CASTE – I urge you to. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2024 BOOKS

• Language: How It Means Everything, and Nothing

  

  A couple of weeks ago some friends suggested we see ENGLISH, by Sanaz Toossi, at the Kiln Theatre. It’s finished its run now, but if you see it advertised... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2024 BOOKS

• If the Son of a Klu Klux Klan Leader Can Become an Anti-Racist, Everyone Can

  

  It takes 25 minutes to watch this video. It takes a lifetime to remain committed to anti-racism. But this person’s journey from white supremacy to anti-racism... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2024 BOOKS

• RMS Titanic: a Perfect Storm

  

  At this time of year I often post about RMS Titanic. Last year’s post remembered the Welsh Able Seaman, Thomas Jones, who captained Lifeboat Number 8 – the... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2024 BOOKS

• Antiracism: Student Confessions Series, with Nova Reid

  

  I took part in Nova Reid’s series of Student Confession Interviews after graduating from her deeply affecting, life-changing course: Becoming Antiracist with... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2024 BOOKS

• Spring: When, Exactly, Does It Begin?

  

  I don’t know about you, but I feel Spring begins when it starts to feel a little warmer and when the are beginning to come out. But according to those who... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2024 BOOKS

• I’m Breaking up with My Shame, on Valentine’s Day

  

  There are studies that show what happens to couples on Valentine’s Day: the less attachment-avoidant among us fare better, as you might guess, and some of us... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2024 BOOKS

• Being Kind Can Reduce Chronic Inflammation. Who Knew?

  

  On 10 January, in Dr Michael Mosley’s series, Just one Thing, there’s an episode called Be Kind. In it, Mosley talks to Dr Tristen Inagaki, PhD of San Diego... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2024 BOOKS

• A Caribbean Rum Christmas Cake

  

  In all my 72 years I’ve never made a Christmas cake. When I was a child I was lucky enough to have them made for me but also, often, we bought them. And I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2023 BOOKS

• Afrikan Reparations: a Conference

  

  On Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd October, in London, a conference to discuss Afrikan Reparations and to address the legacy of the trafficking and enslavement... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2023 BOOKS

• Black History Month, and David Olusoga

  

  October is Black History Month in the UK, but David Olusoga, historian and broadcaster, and many many others, including me, think it’s well past time that... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2023 BOOKS

• An Astonishing Blind Pianist

  

  On Friday 8 September we heard Nobuyuki Tsujii (or Nobu to his many many fans). He played Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto at the penultimate 2023 Prom at... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2023 BOOKS

• Flowers from a Stone

  

  Flowers that find their way through stone or rock (or any apparently impenetrable surface) always touch my heart. They manage to flourish in the most... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2023 BOOKS

• Independence Day: Two Dissenting Points of View

  

  Independence Day, celebrated in America on the fourth of July, commemorates the Declaration of Independence, ratified on the fourth of July 1776. Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2023 BOOKS

• Windrush, 75 Years on

  

  Seventy-five years ago, on 22 June 1948, HMT (His Majesty’s Transport) Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, on the River Thames. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2023 BOOKS

• What Does It Mean to Be Good?

  

  In a 2013 article by Steve Taylor PhD in Psychology Today, good is defined as: a lack of self-centredness … the ability to empathise with other people, feel... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2023 BOOKS