University of Hull Professor Martin Goodman describes how Polish migrants have become integrated into the Hull community, and how the university is even home now to a Polish consulate.

Bringing the crucial work of the World Monuments Fund alive away from the actual buildings being restored is a difficult task. The Giving our Past a Future exhibition doesn’t quite manage it. Instead the hidden passages and untouched bookshelves of the Sir John Soane Museum were far more captivating, and well worth a look, writes Georgia Hussey.

British sport has a “special responsibility” to commemorate the centenary of the war because sport was “the most effective recruiting sergeant in sending men to the trenches,” say British Future’s Matthew Rhodes and Sunder Katwala in an essay published this Remembrance weekend.

The largest collective acts of commemoration this remembrance weekend will take place at sporting events. The Millennium Stadium at Cardiff Arms Park, Murrayfield and Twickenham will fall silent ahead of the rugby internationals, and more than half a million supporters will pay their respects at club grounds, large and small, around Britain, with red poppies embroidered into football shirts in the English and Scottish premier leagues, writes Matthew Rhodes.

The Republicans used to routinely win Presidential elections. Now the party will have to have a fundamental rethink if it is to win again. The central key to Republican dominance a generation ago was race and demography. The same factors are now the key barrier to the party winning again.

Back in April Frank Sharry of America’s Voice predicted the Hispanic vote would be a huge factor in the upcoming US election, at a parliamentary seminar hosted by British Future. Post-election we thought you might like to re-read his foresight.

With the centenary of the commencement of the Great War approaching, an opportunity presents itself to remember, to reflect, and to renew our national understanding of the shared histories that draw us together, as well as the way we pass on those understandings and identities to our children, says school teacher Michael Merrick.

Nearly two thirds (60%) of 16 to 24 year olds can’t name the year that WWI ended, and just ahead of the centenary 54% of the same age group can’t name the date of the start of the war, according to new research from British Future.

Britain must learn more about Indian soldiers in WWI British army, argues Shiraz Maher.