A guest blog by Danielle Burton England has a long history of welcoming refugees. In fact, the word ‘refugee’ entered the English language with the Huguenots, protestants who fled religious persecution from France and what is now southern Belgium between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, arriving in England, Germany, the Netherlands and America.[1] Two significant […]

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Sisters have been in vogue in popular children’s media over the last 10 years. The difficult relationship between Elsa with her magic ice powers and her younger “common” sister Anna without any superhero powers in the film Frozen have inspired millions of girls and occasionally even boys as well as adults. In real history sisters […]

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