Keystone Inspires Blog
Pandemics in History: What have been the consequences of History's largest pandemics?
23rd March 2021
Since the first cases of Covid-19 emerged and spread across the globe, there has been much fear and conversation about the consequences of the pandemic... Read more >
The Art of Reading Closely - Course Introduction
20th March 2021
In this online course, students will learn how to read a piece of literature with creativity, sensitivity, and nuance. The emphasis will be on approaching short texts – poems, or extracts from novels or plays – and investigating the effects that a writer’s choices have on each reader... Read more >
History's Pivotal Moments: Renaissance, Reformation & Revolution - Course Introduction
29th March 2021
In this course students will explore pivotal historical events to evaluate how far they transformed the world we live in. The course will focus on key moments in political, social and cultural history, from the Protestant Reformation to the French Revolution and Civil Rights movement... Read more >
From Aristotle to Nietzsche - Course Introduction
29th March 2021
This online course will provide an introduction to moral philosophy, by looking at the ideas of prominent thinkers from antiquity to the present day, including Aristotle, the Buddha, Kant, Nietzsche, and Mill... Read more >
The Romantic Rebellion - Course Introduction
29th March 2021
The purpose of this course is to try to define the complex business that was Romanticism. A movement and not a style, the term derives from the Medieval word romance; a story or a narrative, and these became popular at the end of the eighteenth century... Read more >
Western History and Culture through the Development of Music - Course Introduction
29th March 2021
This course distils twelve centuries of Western music (from Middle-Ages to now) arranged in chronological order and thematic sequences in order to procure students critical and analytical tools for engaging with their history and the arts in general... Read more >
Meet a Tutor: Jessica Dalton
29th March 2021
Keystone founder Will Orr-Ewing is joined by History tutor Jessica Dalton PhD to talk all things History. They discuss how Jessica came to love history, her passions within the subject and which historical figures Jessica would take with her on a desert island... Read more >
War Poetry: ‘All Dirt and Sucked Sugar Stick’? - Course Introduction
31st March 2021
In this course students will examine the extraordinary flowering of British poetry created by the First World War and seek to understand why this poetry was so different from any that had gone before and so different from that produced by any other nation... Read more >
Great Philosophers & Ethics - FREE TASTER
19th April 2021
Free Taster [vimeo539159773] Live Classes Take a look at Andy's full series of live classes: From Aristotle to Nietzsche: What the Great Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live Classes take place on a weekly basis and have small class sizes to ensure participants have the opportunity to interact with the course teacher through Q&A discussions within each session... Read more >