What we are doing during lockdown.
Hello, One and All.
Welcome to an unscheduled Sagas of She post. The world right now seems scary and surreal, and we wanted to do something, even a little something to make your day better. So, we have recorded a new podcast episode, which should be out today and created a list of free resources, virtual museum tours and fun things that we hope will help you pass the time. Please feel free to share this with others and if you have things you want to add, share them in the comments or with us on social media;
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Blogs:
Sagasofshe (of course- sagasofshe.wordpress.com)
The Dead Ladies Show
Podcasts that we enjoy-can be found wherever you get your podcasts.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard (Apple podcast)
Welcome to Night Vale.
Women of Marvel
Art detective
David Tennant in conversation with…
British Museum has a behind the scenes podcast.
Vulgar History Podcast (apple podcast)
Podbean-Harry Potter read by Stephen Fry.
Sue Perkins: An hour or so with…
Virtual museum tours.
The Guggenheim Museum, New York.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
MASP, São Paulo.
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art.
Virtual walking tours.
Music
The Paris Opera House is screening a number of Operas live.
Facebook Virtual Choir ‘Duet Yourself’
Books/comics
Image Comics allows you to read first issues free.
Gutenberg Project offers free ebooks. Mostly classics and older works.
Open Culture-download Coloring books from 113 museums.
Neil Gaiman-has said repeatedly on Social Media that he is happy for teachers and parents to read and share his stories.
YouTube.
Westminster Abbey is sharing highlights of the building and its collection- search ‘Westminster Abbey’ on YouTube.
BuzzFeed Unsolved-True Crime and Supernatural. All episodes can be found on YouTube.
Education
Future Learn -Free courses on lots of subjects.
Open Learn– Free courses on lots of subjects
Digital resources to support online teaching (This guide is put together to support those in UK universities moving to online teaching in light of the COVID-19 outbreak)
FrenchTeacher.net- Free French Study Packs
Duolingo- learning a language
https://www.duolingo.com/ (also available as an app)
BBC Bitesize– over the coming days and weeks they will be updating their content to bring you more as schools close due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Khan Academy– a nonprofit, with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for all.
The Science Museum– the Science Museum has pulled together resources from all their museums making them available online.
Primary School resources and games-
Oxford owl (For Home)
Mental Health
Mind– information and support during the coronavirus outbreak
Books Emily Recommends/ Wants to read (Currently reading The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova)
- Tessa Dunlop- The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)
- Alison Weir- The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
- Phillip Pullman – His Dark Materials: Gift Edition including all three novels: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass
(I have the Secret commonwealth to read and I need to reread the trilogy first)
- Kathy Reichs- Temperance Brenan books because who doesn’t love a crime novel? (books were the basis of the Bones series)
- Liz Trenow Under a Wartime Sky
(historical fiction but based on the real stories of women working at places like Bawdsey)
- Cathy Newman- Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention
(I have the Secret commonwealth to read and I need to reread the trilogy first)
(historical fiction but based on the real stories of women working at places like Bawdsey)
Books Gemma recommends / Wants to read (currently reading The Surgeon-Tess Gerritsen. And A Brief History of Britain 1066-1485-Nicholas Vincent)
- Julian of Norwich
-Janina Ramirez.
- SPQR– Mary Beard.
- Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots
-Kate Williams.
- The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1) (Discworld Novels)
– Terry Pritchett
- American Gods
/Norse Mythology
-Neil Giaman
- The Rizzoli and Isles series- Tess Gerritsen.
- Wild Embers-Nakita Gill (poetry)
- Too many comic books to list, mainly, (She)Hulk run, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, Squirrel Girl, Teenage Ninja Turtles, and The Sandman.
- Tolkien-all the books!
-Janina Ramirez. 
-Kate Williams.
– Terry Pritchett
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-Neil GiamanIn the wise words of Tolkien: “Even darkness must pass. A new day will come and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.”
Be kind to others and yourselves.
Emily and Gemma.