Professeurs documentalistes Lycée

De la publicité pour les livres à la télévision ?

Un décret autorisant la publicité pour les livres à la télévision est fortement rejeté par le milieu.

Monkey Man: Indian Mythology Meets Action Movie

Monkey Man is a completely new departure for Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel: he co-wrote, directed and stars in the film inspired by Indian mythology and reality.

Murder by the Book

If you happen to be in Cambridge between now and the end of the summer, don't miss the University Library's exhibition about 20th century crime fiction with artefacts and first editions from the likes of Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins. Crime fiction is by far the most popular form of fiction in the U.K. It's the country's most read, bought and borrowed genre. And Britain has produced some outstanding crime-fiction writers and characters from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Christie's Poirot and Miss Marple. Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison and Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse. Some of the first editions on display.The exhibition is curated by by Nicola Upson , herself a bestselling crime writer. In an interesting double take, Upson's principal character is Josephine Tey,  one of the Golden Age British detective writers from the 30s and 40s. Tey's historical detective novel about Richard III and the Princes in the Tower, The Daughter of Time , was voted the best detective novel of all time by the Crime Writer's Association in 1990. https://youtu.be/uJnEs5tovrA   The exhibition features many first editions including Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868), one of the first detective novels. Collins' writing desk is also on display. There are also many exhibits about or from Agatha Christie , the unchallenged  queen of crime fiction, whose novels and short stories have sold more than 2 billion copies around the world. In this video, Nicola Upson describes the fascinating story behnind the typescript of her final Poirot Novel, Curtain , published in 1975, thirty years after it was written. https://youtu.be/Q925XXdVlpI Murder By the Book : A Celebration of 20th Century British Crime Fiction Cambridge University Library Free. Till 24 August 2024 This article gives more information and lots of pictures of the exhibition. You'll find more on British crime fiction in Shine Bright 4e Death on the Nile and Shine Bright 2e File 4 Mystery in the Countryside.

100 Million Trees

The Kenyan government wants its people to plant 100 million trees to regreen the country. They even have a new tree-planting holiday. And the ultimate goal is much bigger: to plant 15 billion trees in 10 years. The JazaMiti initiative, which means "fill with trees" in Swahili,  aims to help tackle climate change.

Your Money or Your Life!

Dick Turpin was a highway robber in early 18th-century England. Unlike Robin Hood, he didn’t rob the rich to give to the poor. But he became a legend thanks to early “tabloid media”: broadsheets and penny dreadfuls. A new TV series takes a humorous look at the historic criminal.

Shine Bright 5e: Manuel-Workbook

If you teach in 5e, you'll soon be receiving the latest addition to our Shine Bright textbook collection: Shine Bright 5e. It's a textbook and workbook rolled into one! Check out the introductory video!

Princess Suffragette

Everyone has heard of the Suffragettes and their actions, yet, have you heard of Princess Suffragette? This Indian princess, whose father was the last ruler of the Sikh Empire, gave up her socialite life in order to fight for a cause.

Irish Independence: Online Exhibition

This online exhibition offered by the Centre culturel irlandais in Paris will give pupils an insight into the turbulent history of Irish independence.

Quais du Polar Lyon is 20

Lyon's Quais du Polar festival is celebrating its 20th edition from 5 to 7 April. It has grown and grown and this year will welcome 135 authors from 15 countries.

État, nationalisme et religion

En Russie, en Turquie, en Inde, en Égypte, on assiste à une transformation de la relation entre pouvoir, nationaliste et religion.

Faut-il interdire TikTok ?

Le réseau social chinois TikTok suscite beaucoup d’inquiétudes et fait débat aux États-Unis comme en Europe. 

La voiture électrique : une domination chinoise

Au regard des enjeux qu’elle représente, la voiture électrique exacerbe la compétition entre acteurs et territoires.

Les agriculteurs face aux politiques de l'UE

Inégalités, concurrence, enjeux de compétitivité : les agriculteurs en colère face à l'UE.

Une loi pour combattre l'ultra fast fashion ?

Le projet de loi pour combattre l’ultra fast fashion répond à des raisons économiques et éthiques.

Chariot of Fire: The Eric Liddell Story

A hundred years ago, a Scotsman became famous for NOT running a race at the Paris 1924 Olympic Games. Eric Liddell's story was immortalised in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. And a play about his life is coming to Paris for two performances on 23 March.

Le Parlement européen : pouvoirs et fonctionnement

Dans la perspective des élections européennes, ce podcast fait le point sur le rôle des eurodéputés.

Qu'est-ce que le CETA ?

En mars 2024, le traité du CETA entre l'UE et le Canada était soumis à l'approbation des sénateurs français.

Romeo and Juliet Without Words

British choreographer Matthew Bourne and his company New Adventures pride themselves in finding new ways of "telling stories without words". In Romeo and Juliet, Bourne has taken one of the best-known words in the English language and transformed the familiar story in a reinvention which plays on the dystopian elements of the original script.

U.S. Congress Tries to Ban TikTok

On 13 March, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill which would ban the social-media app TikTok from the country unless it is no longer owned by a Chinese company. The legislation was rushed through in record time, although it is not certain it will be confirmed by the Senate. What risk does Congress believe TikTok represents?

Time to Put on a Red Nose

Red Nose Day is back on Friday 15 March in the UK.  British charity Comic Relief has been encouraging people to don a clown's red nose and "do something funny for money" since 1988. 

Qu'est-ce que la guerre ?

Quand peut-on dire « nous sommes en guerre » ? De l’importance de définir le terme de guerre pour décrypter son usage …

Rumours, Rumours

Definitely not one to show your pupils! Wicked Little Letters is a delicious comedy with Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley,  set in a 1920s English seaside town, where the population starts receiving defamatory letters full of profanities. An Irish migrant with a good stock of swear words in her vocabulary, Rose Gooding is accused of being the author of the letters. But the women of the town begin to doubt her guilt. The film is actually based on a real case, which took place in Littlehampton, a seaside town in Sussex. In the days before internet trolling, poison-pen letters fulfilled the same role of venting your fury. In this case, most of the ire seems to be directed at innocuous spinster Edith Swan (Colman), who lives at home with her mother (Gemma Jones) and domineering father (Timothy Spall). But much like trolling today, the poison-pen letters had real-life consequences when single mother Rose (Buckley) is charged with criminal libel. https://youtu.be/EofbpYnLj3E This is the second time Olivia Colman (The Crown, The Favourite, The Father, Wonka) and Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, The Woman in White) have starred together. Buckley played the younger version of Colman's character in the 2021 adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel The Lost Daughter. Look out for Buckley in the upcoming adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet by Chloe Zhao and Colman in Wicker with Dev Patel. This video gives some of the background about the true story, including that of the first female police officer in Sussex, played by Anjana Vasan, but doesn't contain spoilers. https://youtu.be/hFlDmqTb9Do Wicked Little Letters On general release 13 March.

Des travailleurs des plates-formes mieux protégés

Un accord supposé renforcer les droits des travailleurs des plates-formes a été signé par les pays de l'UE.

And the Oscar Goes to

2023 was the year "Barbenheimer" revived cinema attendance around the world. But despite leading the box office, Barbie received only one Oscar, for best song, while Oppenheimer dominated this year's Awards, taking home seven statuettes.

La loi et les mœurs

Récemment, la France et la Grèce ont pris des mesures progressistes pour les droits humains. 

Irish Referendum on Women's Role in Society

On International Women's Day 2024, France is including the freedom to have an abortion in its constitution while Ireland is holding a referendum to remove clauses from its constitution which promise the Irish state will do everything it can to allow women to stay in the home.

Benediction: Siegfried Sassoon Biopic

Siegfried Sassoon was one of the most famous of the British World War I poets but unlike Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke or Edward Thomas, Sassoon survived the war he had despised while serving brilliantly. Terence Davies’ final film traces both the war service and the long life looking for meaning which followed, with Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi playing the younger and older Sassoon.

La Suède renonce à son ambition climatique

Si la Suède a été à la pointe des politiques climatiques, son nouveau gouvernement remet tout en question.

Conseil lecture : « Le monde sans fin »

Une bande-dessinée pour comprendre les questions de l'énergie et du changement climatique.

L’interrogation et la négation dans Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées