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Amazon are resorting to making up their own characters, plots, and events – a rash move that will likely doom the show for ardent fans of the source material.

Joan began to have visions in which she claimed to have communicated directly with saints, and that these saints had designated her the saviour of France.

The word ‘Hogmanay’ derives from the French ‘hoginane’, meaning ‘gala day’, and was likely first used in 1561, following the return of Mary Queen of Scots to Scotland from France.

If you plan your work carefully and make sure you stick to the deadlines you have been set, you will be starting off 2022 in a positive and proactive way.

This blog will give you some helpful tips on how to make the most out of the festivities and support your learning at the same time.

It was with writer Washington Irving’s 1809 book Knickerbocker’s History of New York that Saint Nicholas began to come to life as the lovable figure we know him as today.

A Christmas Carol, first published in 1843, highlighted the major impact of poverty experienced by many of those living within both the capital and other cities growing around newly industrialised locations.

How can you use the news to help with your creative writing skills?

Even if there is to be a pause in the regrowth of tourism, it is likely that in time it will begin again, such is our collective wish to go abroad.

There is no confusion about the transformation of the word ‘cacao’ [bean] to ‘cocoa’. This is widely believed to be the result of a spelling mistake by English traders – and the misspelt word stuck!