A Medley of Mythology

A MEDLEY OF MYTHOLOGY We’ve selected a few of our favourite mythological retellings to sink your teeth into. With books, poems, films and art to admire we hope you enjoy losing yourself in the intoxicating stories of ancient Greece and Rome. BOOKS For refreshing...


Ten Ted Talks to spark inspiration

  We’ve cherry picked 10 of our favourite Ted Talks that will fill you with the desire to think, make and do.  1. Sir Ken Robinson, Do Schools Kill Creativity? “Creativity is as important as literacy and we should afford it the same status”...


Kisses on Valentine’s Day

Today, the hype surrounding all things pink, floral and heart-shaped is often thought to have been created by cynical businessmen selling cards and rose-clutching teddy bears. The sickly (rather than sweet) imagery thrown indiscriminately from billboards and social media the world over, is the...


The Assumption of Mary, Titian

A Scholarship winner … 18 years on

We’ve been running our Trenchard Cox Art History Abroad Scholarship for over 20 years, continuing our mission to inspire a lifelong love of learning about subjects from art and architecture to history, literature and music. Here we catch up with one of our former winners, Annabel...


SPoKE: a brilliant filmmaking competition for students

In this post we want to showcase one of the prizes we sponsor which is very close to our hearts. As an organisation whose mission is ‘to inspire a lifelong love of learning about subjects from art and architecture to history, literature and music‘,...