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Hannah Rose Woods

Hannah Rose Woods

Journalist at The New Statesman

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The destruction of Edward Colston’s statue is an act of living history

The irony of historic preservation is that history itself is a process of creative destruction. We might think of a statue as the record of a moment frozen in time, but this isn’t a record that can si
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Why has the right gone natalist?

There’s something disconcerting about the conservative penchant for telling women they need to breed.
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Is Britain’s Strictest Headmistress a visionary or a tyrant?

Many of Katharine Birbalsingh’s rules seem petty beyond belief – but she gets results. What does her approach tell us about our education culture war?
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After two years of strange isolation, I no longer know myself

Our new reality seems a little too normal to be normal. Are we all giving a convincing performance of coping?
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How University Challenge became a British institution - The New Sta...

It is hard to explain what happens, psychologically, when you answer a question on the University Challenge set. Words are being said to you, very fast, and you have stopped experiencing them as linea
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The cult of Paddington Bear

You’ve probably seen it by now. The drawing of the Queen, holding the hand of Paddington Bear as they walk away from us into the great beyond. A single corgi follows along, trailing bunting. Marmalade
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House plants can be addictive. I should know: I own 51

Ferns spill over my bathroom counter; ivies and pothos trail from windowsills – it seems I have become a plant woman.
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Why does nothing work in the UK anymore? - The New Statesman

From GP appointments to trains, everything feels broken.
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Why does nothing work in the UK anymore?

We’re all in agreement that everything in Britain is broken. The whole national health service is on the verge of collapse, from cancelled GP appointments to ambulances and A&E departments so over
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Why we need the Women’s Prize for Non-fiction

It is 28 years since the Women’s Prize for Fiction was established, in protest at the under-representation of female authors in literary competitions. It was inspired, notoriously, by the 1991 Booker
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Why we need the Women's Prize for Non-fiction - The New Statesman

We might be tempted to see prizes for women as less necessary with each passing year – but non-fiction is still seen as a male pursuit.
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On writing a history of nostalgia - The New Statesman

I am not sure I’ll ever get my head around the combinations of choice and circumstance that make us who we are.
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The attack on the humanities is snobbery dressed as realism

You don’t need a degree in the humanities to recognise a faulty argument, but it does help if you want to make such an argument in a newspaper. “We should cheer decline of humanities degrees” ran a he
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The right don’t own tradition, but they can keep Morris dancing

I’m very attached to my almanac. There is something inexplicably reassuring about its annual mish-mash of moon cycles and tide tables, folk festivals, wildlife facts, gardening tips and zodiac. I like
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The friendlier, softer University Challenge

I don’t like change. When I think of University Challenge, my brain supplies images from the mid-2000s – the old dark blue and violet set; Jeremy Paxman with bouffant hair in his not-quite-silver
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The noble art of procrastination - The New Statesman

“There is no more miserable human being,” thought the philosopher William James, “than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.” The importance of a daily routine to free the mind for more interesting or productive matters was one of his favourite themes. Pity the person who lacked the autopilot of habits, “for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitio…
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Still fighting the history wars

We are often told, in the midst of the culture wars, that to dwell on the less congenial aspects of the British empire is to judge the past by today’s standards. For those who argue that so-called wok
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Who would be a university student in 2023? - The New Statesman

The countryside I often take myself to is strange in that it’s also a university. A mile or so out of town there is a little rural campus, an outpost of Nottingham Trent University for students in agr
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Scientists of the 17th century would recognise my ailment – air ache

It’s that time of year when what I think of as my “seasonal melancholy” is particularly acute. I cannot understand why we haven’t settled on a term for it. The air ache. That emotional tug we get when
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The women that books built

How the bluestockings used wit and learning to subvert a deeply misogynist culture.
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Universities are in crisis

Higher education commentators have been warning for years of a looming crisis in university funding. Now, they are beginning to ask which institution will go bankrupt first. Few expect that the govern