Welcome to the WEA’s repository of thought provoking articles.
Inspired by our online courses or member lectures, and the expertise of the tutors or other speakers that create them, these aim to spark debate and enrich your knowledge.
We hope you enjoy them and join in the conversation amongst our learning community in Twitter and Facebook. And keep an eye out for regular additions to this ‘bank’.
Do toys provide a window into our pasts?
What's more important - equality or equity?
What was the Great British tea heist?
Changing the world one lyric at a time?
Who really shocked his neighbours in Victorian times?
How much does our current system of democracy differ from the one created so long ago?
Can reading make us a better person?
Dr Watson - the archetypal literary sidekick?
100 years of Chinese Communism
Early Westminster political pioneers