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Wangari Maathai was a Nobel Peace laureate, known for her work as an advocate for Kenyan women rights and environmental preservation.

Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, an organisation that (cont. below)

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2021-12-02

Download our reading guide to ”Jefferson”, a novel by this year's laureate Jean-Clade Mourlevat. Get an introduction to the book's main themes and ideas to inspire conversation. Use it in school, at the library or in a reading group. In Swedish & English: https://t.co/XsMwnUT6qt

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2021-11-23

This year’s economic sciences laureates have demonstrated that many of society’s big questions can be answered. Their solution is to use natural experiments – situations arising in real life that resemble randomised experiments.

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2021-10-11

"I always like to go to the extremes. Can we do things that were just impossible before?"

- 2021 chemistry laureate Benjamin List talks about his future research at this morning's press conference.

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2021-10-06

“It’s clear that for the future generation, we have to act now in a very fast way.”

- 2021 physics laureate Giorgio Parisi speaks about the current climate situation at this morning's press conference.

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2021-10-05

We are delighted to be supporting this year!

Each day this week has a daily theme based on Cressida Cowell’s Waterstones UK Children’s Laureate Charter.

Click here to see which events are on each day.
https://t.co/0cgsalKy3s

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2021-09-29

90's commission for @/laureatewitch!
AAA Nao i got rest up, been feeling dizzy today 🌻🌻

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2021-08-27

The weeks art is from Penn State Laureate Bill Doan's "The Anxiety Project"

Please share your works inspired by the art &/or prompt words:

Truth | Projection | Culmination | Anatomy | Splatter | Stumble

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2021-08-26

Just launched in time for World Elephant Day! I AM ELEPHANT, a picture book introduction to a magnificent, endangered species, with spare text by Children's Poet Laureate and stylized watercolor drawings by Miriam Nerlove: https://t.co/GcZW9X4A0N

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2021-08-12



Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet and longest serving poet laureate born in 1809.

🎨 John William Waterhouse

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2021-08-06

The Obverse features a laureate portrait of Apollo and by the 1st Century BC, the date of this example, had been complemented by the ethnic marker ΛΥ – ‘Of the Lycians’ – that now flanks the bust.

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2021-07-27

Have you played our 'Trowel & Error' game? It's a Twine choose your own adventure style game designed by Barnsley's Poet Laureate
and Barnsley and Rotherham Young Archaeologists' Club.

https://t.co/g55Enj7bTl

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2021-07-22

We are so excited about the later this year! There are some fantastic events planned, including with our super-duper Waterstones Children's Laureate .

Find out how you can get involved here: https://t.co/DtoWGbIIwD

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2021-07-08

We are so excited about the upcoming - there are so many awesome events planned, including with our super-duper Waterstones Children's Laureate !

Find out more and get involved here: https://t.co/DtoWGbIIwD

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2021-07-04

110 years ago today, in 1911, Polish Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz was born in Šeteniai, Lithuania (then Russian Empire). He died in Kraków in 2004, having lived in exile in France and California (after defecting from communist Poland). His poems bear witness to his century.

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2021-06-30

We are so excited that the is coming back this year with some really brilliant events, including a celebration of the new book Happy Here and fun with our super duper Waterstones Children's Laureate !

Find out more here: https://t.co/DtoWGbIIwD

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2021-06-29

The Reading is Magic Festival, a children's digital books festival run by and inspired by , will return this autumn as a five-day event, featuring different themes from Cowell’s Waterstones Children’s Laureate Charter! https://t.co/YpjyEkGZKz

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2021-06-25

Happy Thursday! We're starting this morning visiting where is opening their brand new space

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2021-06-24

Day 2 of opening tour and will be visiting this morning to launch their beautiful new library space!

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2021-06-23