CONTENTS
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News 8
‘ESU Voices’ film series debuts; International Public
Speaking Competition winner unveiled and HRH
The Princess Royal visits Dartmouth House
for the ESU English Language Awards.
The dialogue Interview 16
From Stockton-on-Tees to the Houses of Parliament:
ESU Public Speaking competition winner Nathania
Ewruje discusses her remarkable journey.
OUR WORK
Martin Luther King 20
Michael Pryke looks at the incredible story
behind King’s most famous speech.
Meeting Martin Luther King 24
When Alumna Daphne Carroll was awarded an
ESU Secondary School Exchange scholarship,
little did she know that it would give her the
opportunity to meet one of the world’s
most important social reformers.
This House Believes… 26
That the History Curriculum in English Schools
Should Focus Primarily on Events and Issues of
World Importance, Rather than the UK and its Past.
Call My Bluff 28
Author and QI Researcher Adam Jacot de
Boinod sets readers a Call My Bluff quiz.
English: The Language of Science 30
How and why the English language rose to become
science’s preferred medium of exchange.
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DEBATING
THE HISTORY
CURRICULUM
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CENTENARY
32 Founder’s Voice
In a new regular feature leading up to the ESU’s
centenary in 2018, dialogue prints excerpts from
Evelyn Wrench’s diary.
BRANCHES
34 Diary Dates
Details of all the events taking place over the next
few months, including the welcome return of Artist
in Residence, James Pearson.
42 News
A look back at the events and work
of ESU branches around the country.
HERITAGE
50 From the Archive
The Dartmouth House team in the 1920s.