Roy Peachey

Awe, wonder and a new GCSE

Children should learn to love the natural world before studying it for an exam, says Roy Peachey
in 2013 and 2014, biology undergraduates at the university of oxford were asked to name five species of birds, trees, mammals, butterflies a...

Minding our language

English teacher <I>Roy Peachey</I> on the best way to tackle ‘chronological snobbery’
i have bad news for you: the anglo-saxons didn’t exist. i realise you may have studied them or taught classes about them, but the fact remai...

Saints, authors and prime ministers: The dramatic story of Japanese Catholicism

after his apostolic visit to thailand later this month, pope francis will move on to japan, a land of saints and martyrs, but also a country...

The Chinese PM who became a Benedictine monk

Lu Zhengxiang went from the height of the Chinese government to a monastic cell in Belgium

The monk who inspired Tintin

noyelles-sur-mer is an unremarkable village with a remarkable world war ii graveyard. situated at the mouth of the river somme, noyelles was...

Dickensian levels of poverty still exist today

there are few, if any, authors more firmly associated with christmas than charles dickens. he may not have been, as the movie suggests, the ...

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