Is computer-assisted decision-making the way to go? Zoonar/Alamy Stock Photo
Why are some organisations worth saving and others not, post the ravages of Covid-19? A software tool, Spotlight, developed by the Tory MP Michael Gove’s office which claims to bring “greater confidence, efficiency and speed to decision-making” has been used to vet applications for the government’s Covid-19 Cultural Recovery Fund, so far helping to allocate more than £1bn of the £1.57bn pot. But this algorithm-based approach seems to have left many struggling arts organisations out in the cold.
The main bodies charged with overseeing the process Arts Council England (ACE), the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) and Historic England (HE) confirmed they used Spotlight, which was introduced last summer across government departments issuing Covid-19 bailouts. The software is an “online due diligence tool for use before and during the grant application… to assure those rec
WE ARE HONORED to present to you the very first
Massachusetts Review issue focused on Native American writing. We are thankful to Associate Editor N. C. Christopher Couch and the rest of the MR team for dreaming up this issue and for asking us to be guest editors, and we are especially thankful to the writers and artists whose work we’ve chosen for this special issue. Their words and images are a gift.
This issue, as it was first imagined, was set to coincide with and push back against Massachusetts’s planned celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the
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The Bard, like us, lived through a period of trauma. One expert now believes it coloured his later plays
Rhys Ifans as the Fool and Glenda Jackson as King Lear in a 2016 production. For centuries, King Lear was staged with a happy ending. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Observer
Rhys Ifans as the Fool and Glenda Jackson as King Lear in a 2016 production. For centuries, King Lear was staged with a happy ending. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Observer
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The ravages of the plague are the true source of the dark sorrow driving Shakespeareâs later work, a leading authority on the playwright has claimed â and were even behind his decision to change the traditional ending of the
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IMAGE: Artefacts in the exhibition were recovered from the former site of William Shakespeare s home New Place in Stratford-Upon-Avon view more
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Archaeological discoveries which shed light on the life and times of William Shakespeare are being showcased in a new free to access virtual exhibition.
3D-scanned artefacts recovered from the site of the Bard s family home New Place feature in Searching for Shakespeare, an online museum exhibition curated by the Centre of Archaeology at Staffordshire University in collaboration with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Archaeologists from Staffordshire University carried out excavations of the site in Stratford-Upon-Avon between 2010 and 2016.