“Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights” Hillary Clinton On November 25, 1960, three sisters, Patria Mercedes Mirabal, María Argentina Minerva Mirabal and Antonia María Teresa Mirabal, were assassinated in the Dominican Republic on the orders of the Dominican ruler, Rafael Trujillo. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against…
What do Jose Ramos-Horta, Oscar Isaac and Victoria Barrett all agree on? That millennials have the biggest stake in our future and their voices need to be heard when carbon emission caps are decided. At the COP22 Global Climate Change Conference, a new eco-socio movement, The Future Is Ours, was launched. Backed by a seasoned select of academic…
The winners of the AHRC ‘Research In Film’ Awards have been announced at a special ceremony at the home of British film, BAFTA and the Ladbury team were there to join in the celebrations. Hundreds of films were submitted for the Awards in five categories. A panel of expert judges helped to decide the shortlisted…
A new report from the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism reveals that although millennials will soon be in control of $30 trillion through wealth transfer, they are fraught with comparative anxiety as they are made persistently aware, through social media, of their peers’ successes. The report, The Millennial Challenge for Inclusive Capitalism, produced by Impact Squared…
Last week, the Ladbury team sped up to Cambridge to meet a rather remarkable feline character, who’s fast becoming the talk of Cambridgeshire county. Cinder the cat is the latest digital delight from design studio Umbrellium Spawned from the searingly brilliant mind of creator Usman Haque, founding partner of Umbrellium, Cinder the cat embodies all…
As society’s need and desire for technology continues to evolve and expand, robots will inevitably play an ever-increasing role in our lives. Being There is a four-year project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which brought together five collaborative teams of researchers from the Universities of Exeter, Bath, Oxford, Cambridge…
I wanted to just record a few impressions of this unusual and imaginative festival. Yes, there were the big names – Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, The Early Opera Company and the magnificent Philharmonia Orchestra – all duly appreciated and received with enthusiasm. However, for me it was the unknown, untested, more obscure events featured at this…
The sun is shining brightly on Arnold Circus in Shoreditch, East London. But today there’s even more colour in the air than you’d expect from a regular Summer Sunday – and the palette is a vibrant mix of reds, blacks, greens and yellows. Beneath the elevated bandstand, the crowd filling the street are throwing some…
As workingwomen, we tend to give 100% of ourselves to our work. Maybe we want to prove that we can deliver? Or we are so passionate about our work that we cannot stop working? I guess it is a mix of both for me. And over the years, I have realised that even if my…
I remember writing for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November last year, where we highlighted the ever-shocking stat that 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner. And there was a clear fact: men confuse manhood with violence and control….
At 6pm on a Tuesday evening in London, the sun finally broke through the rainclouds that had been haunting the city since dawn and illuminated the cobbled, labyrinth that is Soho. It was at this time that the country’s foremost wine ahfficiandos began to filter into the iconic Ronnie Scott’s for what turned out to…
The Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival 2016 is underway and the Ladbury team have been having a ball.The festival kicked off with a splendid opening ceremony event where Maori culture was at the heart of the celebrations. Whakatuwhera, was held in Salisbury Cathedral Close, which drew on the Maori welcome powhiri and the arts of…