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Speak Up

• September 2024
  • An Influencer’s Dilemma A Short Story
  • Catching up with a Friend Everyday Dialogues
  • Foraging Finding Food in the Wild
  • Halfbreed Maria Campbell
  • Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
  • Indeed A Very Useful Word
  • Internet Vernacular English Digital Slang
  • Jane Goodall World’s Best-Known Naturalist
  • Nvidia The world’s Most Valuable Company
  • Radio Caroline The Pirate Radio
  • Shetland The Good Life in the Far North
  • Talk Like a Pirate Ahoy, Me Hearties
  • The International Brigades Fighting Fascism
  • The New York Times -Labour Won in a Landslide but...-
  • Why Do We Have the Dreams that We Do
• August 2024
  • A Brief Guide to Humour Just for Laughs
  • De Havilland Comet Modern Aviation
  • Duh All Too Obvious
  • How to Survive a Trip to the US The Definitive Guide for First-time Visitors to the United States
  • Jonathan Yeo’s King Charles III Vivid Red King
  • Laugh Until You Cry Getting Emotional
  • Making Fun of the Boss Everyday Dialogues
  • Ottessa Moshfegh Welcome to the Uncanny
  • Overcrowded Cities Top Five
  • Overtourism Too Popular Destinations
  • Perseid Meteor Shower Shooting Stars
  • Sir David Attenborough Champion of the Earth
  • The New York Times -The Internet’s Final Frontier Remote Amazon Tribes-
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • The Treasure Hunter Mel Fisher
  • Uncontrollable A Short Story
  • ‘Nepo Baby’ Was Just the Start Inside the Expanding Nepo Universe
• July 2024
  • A Nice, Strong Cuppa Everyday Dialogues
  • Are We About to Discover a New Force of Nature
  • Australia Take Only Memories, Leave Only Footprints
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Country Fairs Agriculture Culture
  • How to Survive a Trip to the UK The Definitive Guide for First-Time Visitors To the British Isles
  • Sadiq Khan The Mayor of London
  • Sir Ernest Shackleton Britain’s Bravest Explorer
  • Summer in Paradise
  • The Civil Rights Act 60th Anniversary
  • The Great Barrier Reef Australia’s Natural Wonder
  • The New York Times -How Taylor Swift Conquered the World-
  • The Ray-Ban Sunglasses Stylish Eyewear
  • Top 10 Australian Landmarks
  • Wimbledon More Than Just Tennis
  • Wow
• June 2024
  • A Walk Through the Wetlands Everyday Dialogues
  • Animal Speak Beastly Language
  • Captain Cook History’s Intrepid Explorer
  • Enjoy Your Time A Short Story
  • How Marie Kondo Changed Her Mind -I Realised Perfect Order Was Not My Goal
  • Howards End by E. M. Forster
  • Leeds Castle The Loveliest Castle in the World
  • Mystery on Mt. Everest Death at the Summit
  • Rewilding Nature Recovers
  • Speaking with Animals Inter-species Conversation
  • Stephen King Fifty Years Scaring Us
  • The Parker Pen Smooth Flow of Ink
  • The Scariest Stephen King Characters Top 5
  • The Stuntwoman And... Action!
  • Yoko Ono The Music of the Mind
• May 2024
  • Admiral Lord Nelson England’s Greatest Naval Hero
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Bridgerton The Regency Romance Returns
  • Dylan Thomas Celebrating the Great Welsh Poet
  • Financial Advice Everyday Dialogues
  • Fish Fridays A Short History
  • In Love With Words
  • Into the Archive The National Gallery
  • Save the Apostrophe! A Mark of Great Importance
  • Shakespeare and Company A Parisian Literary Landmark
  • Short Story Young People These Days
  • Should We All Be Putting Chips in Our Brains
  • The Finfluencer Financial Freedom for Everyone!
  • The National Gallery Old Masters in London
  • The New York Times -Manhattan or Pulau Rhun In 1667, Nutmeg Made the Choice a No-Brainer-
  • The Polin Season
  • The Quakers A Society of Friends
  • Thorpeness Dream Village
• April 2024
  • Alan Turing The Father of Modern Computing
  • Bletchley Park Top-Secret
  • Digital Addiction Everyday Dialogues
  • Digital Addiction What Happens When We Cannot Disconnect
  • Facts and Fables
  • Fast Fashion A Modern-Day Phenomenon
  • Lakes of Scotland Dramatic Landscapes
  • Nessie The Loch Ness Monster
  • Ozempic The True Cost of Weight-Loss Drugs
  • Salman Rushdie The Storyteller
  • Short Story Drowned
  • Tartan A Short History
  • The Codebreakers
  • The New York Times -We Have a Dopamine Problem-
  • The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  • The Truth About Intermittent Fasting What Is It, How Does It Work – and Is It Right for You
  • The Vale Pantry An Inspiring Approach to Food Poverty
  • Top 5 Scottish Lochs
• March 2024
  • Artificial Intelligence The Coming Age
  • Cadbury's 200th Anniversary
  • Central Cee Drill Star
  • Chatbot Assistance Everyday Dialogues
  • Gender Terrorism
  • Jane Eyre On the Big Screen
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Lab-Grown Meat The Food of the Future
  • Latin in Everyday English
  • Maggie Nelson On Freedom
  • Roman Britain Imprint of Empire
  • Short Story Intersection
  • The Manosphere Laura Bates
  • The New York Times The Biggest Oscar Snubs and Surprises 2024
  • The Oscars The Torture Behind Red-Carpet Glamour
  • The Red Carpet A Short History
  • The Roman Legacy
  • Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the World Wide Web
• February 2024
  • Beloved Toni Morrison
  • Darren McGarvey Poverty Safari
  • Facebook Twenty Years
  • James Watt Inventing the Modern World
  • Matrescence How Motherhood Changes the Mind and Body
  • Poor Things Emma Stone’s Bid to Win the Oscar
  • Right to Thrive
  • South African English at Iboux Academy the Richness of a Global Language
  • Sunken Roads Footpaths to the Past
  • The Beatles In One Two Three Four
  • The Beatles in Time Craig Brown
  • The Beatles’ English Course Songs to Learn English According to Your Level
  • The Charts Measuring Success
  • The Mediterranean Diet Everyday Dialogues
  • The New York Times -The Mediterranean Diet Really Is That Good for You. Here’s Why
  • The Unbearable Hubris of Musk and the Billionaire Tech Bros
  • The Word of the Year A Year in Eight Words (and Some More)
• January 2024
  • A Toxic Relationship A Short Story
  • Alcatraz Prison Island
  • Bigfoot Cryptozoology
  • Borough Market Foodie Paradise
  • Chamonix 1924 A Century of Winter Olympic Games
  • Food Stalls in Borough Market Top 5
  • Guinness World Records 2024
  • How the Princess of Wales Became the Royals’ Not-So-Secret Weapon The Kate Effect
  • Ian McEwan Life's Lessons
  • Icon of the Seas New Maritime Horizons
  • Queen Elizabeth I The Golden Age
  • Shopping at the Market Everyday Dialogues
  • Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
  • The Guinness Book of Records Groundbreaking Feats
  • The Language of Power Owen Jones
  • The New York Times With Diana’s Death, The Crown Enters Its Most Evocative Era
  • The Wolves Are Back Yellowstone National Park
• December 2023
  • 50th Anniversary of The Exorcist
  • An American Christmas Traditions Old and New
  • Chanel No5
  • Coco Chanel Fashion Manifesto
  • Enzo Ferrari Italian Success Story
  • Ferrari Luxurious Icon
  • Hogmanay Scottish New Year
  • Iboux Academy and the Arrival of AI Pioneering English Lessons
  • Johnny Rotten Punk's National Treasure
  • Ken Follett Farewell to Kingsbridge
  • Maria Callas A Greek Tragedy
  • Maria Callas La Divina
  • Preparing Christmas Dinner Everyday Dialogues
  • Requiem for a Tree Boy, 16, Arrested After Felling of Famous Sycamore Gap Tree
  • The Hollywood Sign Nine Letters on Top of a Hill
  • The Hollywood Sign One Hundred Years
  • The Last Breath A Short Story
  • The Most Used Word Ever It's Ok!
  • The New York Times On Christmas Day, New Yorkers Follow Their Own Traditions
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• November 2023
  • A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick’s Biggest, Boldest Provocation
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • A Short History of the Electric Guitar
  • A Short Story The Point of No Return
  • Dawn of the Age of Conspiracy The Assassination of JFK
  • Everyday Dialogues A Visit to the Library
  • Horror and Healing John Boyne
  • James Bridle New Dark Age
  • Magnificent and Magical Blenheim Palace
  • Master of Modern Communications Alexander Graham Bell
  • Shakespeare’s First Folio
  • Simon Halfon Oasis Uncut
  • St. Andrew's Day
  • The 1960s in the US Decade of Death
  • The House of the Churchills Blenheim Palace
  • The New York Times-When Should a Museum Return Looted Items It’s Complicated-
  • The Rise of Prejudice Book Ban
  • Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• October 2023
  • 160th Anniversary of The Tube
  • A Controversial Celebration Columbus Day
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • America's National Emblem The Bald Eagle
  • Everyday Dialogues Travelling on the Tube
  • Honest Politics Jimmy Carter
  • How to Talk About the Wind
  • Indigenous People's Day
  • Legacy of a Libertine The Marquis de Sade
  • Love, Trust and Betrayal Killers of the Flower Moon
  • New River Gorge Bridge Day
  • Norma's Teaching Overcome Your Language Learning Block!
  • The First Sadist The Marquis de Sade
  • The Greatest Discovery in Medicine Alexander Fleming
  • The Legend of the Faceless Ghost
  • The New York Times -A Year of Cosmic Wonder with the James Webb Space Telescope-
  • The Truth About Sleep Have We Been Getting It All Wrong
  • The Tube City on the Move
  • Transforming Society Through Science The Lancet
• September 2023
  • A Short Story Life Choices
  • Coney Island Boardwalk
  • Everyday Dialogues The Four-Day Work Week
  • Father of Fantasy Fiction J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Healthy Meals School Dinners
  • Human vs. Machine The History of Work
  • Long Weekends Bank Holidays
  • Nick Srnicek The Future of Work
  • Past Revisited Bret Easton Ellis
  • Regency Bath Jane Austen Festival
  • Scottish Tradition The Highland Games
  • The Big Idea Are We Living in a Simulation
  • The Four-Day Work Week
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
  • The New York Times The Terror of Threes in the Heavens and on Earth
  • The Return of the Greatest Show on Earth The Ringling Circus
  • The Show Must Go On The Ringling Circus
  • Walks, Talks and Balls Jane Austen Festival
  • Weather Chat How to Talk About Rain
• August 2023
  • A Hot Topic How to Talk About the Heat
  • A Short History of Poker
  • A Short Story The Lies the Camera Tells
  • Actor and Activist Susan 
Sarandon
  • An American Trauma International African American Museum
  • England’s Football Icon Bobby Moore
  • Everyday Dialogues Heat Wave
  • Funny and Weird Animal Teamwork
  • Historical Memory International African American Museum
  • John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s Summer Nights
  • Muhammad Ali Power and Grace
  • Muhammad Ali The G.O.A.T
  • Oliver Roeder Imperfect Information
  • Oliver Roeder The Guessing Game
  • The Truth About Cats Are They Really Domesticated
  • The New York Times 
“The Iceberg Was Only Part of It”
  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  • William Atkins Immeasurable Worlds
• July 2023
  • A Force of Nature Emily Brontë
  • A Mind Travelling in Space Stephen Hawking
  • A Short History of Fried Chicken
  • A Short Story The Human Server
  • Dawn of the Nuclear Age The Manhattan Project
  • Fourth of July The Declaration of Independence
  • Harrison Ford’s Latest Adventure Indiana Jones
  • Land of Screen Dreams Barbie
  • Literary Icons The Brontë Sisters
  • Rebecca Solnit Whose Story Is This
  • Sea-Watch International Saving Lives at Sea
  • Search and Rescue Sea-Watch International
  • The Father of the Atomic Bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • The High Five Job Well Done!
  • The Truth About Booze How Alcohol Really Affects your Body
  • The World’s Funniest Joke
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • Yorkshire Brontë Country
• June 2023
  • 20 June World Refugee Day
  • A Geological Marvel The Wave
  • A short History of After Eights
  • A short story The Secrets of Mrs. B
  • An Oasis of Calm Canterbury Cathedral
  • Arizona The Next Frontier
  • Beyond the Spaghetti Western
  • Canterbury Cathedral Holy Place and Murder Site
  • ESL’s English Full Immersion Dive into English
  • Everyday Dialogue English Immersion
  • Geoff Manaugh How to Rob a Bank
  • Interview The Perfect Heist
  • Jo Nesbø The Master of Nordic Noir
  • Riding the True Crime Wave Love & Death
  • Spelling Bee A 100-Year-Old Tradition
  • The British Empress Queen Victoria
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • The Police’s Every Breath You Take
  • The Rehabilitation of Camilla from Marriage Wrecker to Queen
• May 2023
  • A Short History of the Cheeseburger
  • A Short Story A Perfect Plan
  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
  • Everyday Dialogues Games Night
  • Everyone's Watching True Crime
  • Games a Human History
  • How to Have a Healthy Brain The Best Diet at Every Stage of Life
  • Iboux Academy Learn English Online
  • Kent, the Garden of England Fruits, Flowers and Spirits
  • Mount Everest Reaching the Summit
  • Mt. Everest The Explorer's Passage
  • Rachel Monroe Beyond Macabre Fun
  • Regal Pomp All You Need to Know About the Coronation of Charles III
  • The Dodo Bird Back from Extinction
  • The Mullet a Global Resurgence
  • Tune into English Frank Sinatra's My Way
  • Winston Churchill A Man of Destiny
• April 2023
  • A Short History of the Cucumber Sandwich
  • Anglesey The Mother of Wales
  • Boudica Queen, Mother, Rebel, Warrior
  • Boudica the Warrior Queen
  • Charlie Chaplin The Little Tramp
  • Conspiracy Theories Counteracting Misinformation
  • Conspiracy Theories The Need for Critical Thinking
  • Everyday Dialogues Gala Night
  • Short Story A Narrow Escape
  • Succession The Toxic Dynasty Returns
  • The 50th Anniversary of the First Mobile Phonecall
  • The Doomsday Clock Ticking Closer to Midnight
  • The Human Genome Project Big Science
  • The Met Gala NY Fashion's Big Night
  • The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  • The Truth about Caffeine How Coffee Affects our Bodies
  • Top Five Met Gala Looks
  • Tune into English Midnight Oil's Beds are Burning
  • Warner Bros 100th Anniversary
  • Wembley Stadium 50th Anniversary
• March 2023
  • 50th Anniversary of Watergate Woodward & Bernstein
  • A Short History of Cookies
  • Everyday Dialogues Visiting Scotland
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Jane Austen Iconic Literary Figure
  • Lithium White Gold
  • Miriam Toews Survival Through Art
  • Old London Bridge London’s Lost Landmark
  • Short Story The Trip of a Lifetime
  • St. Paul’s Cathedral Sir Christopher Wren’s Masterwork
  • The Dark Side of the Moon Song by Song
  • The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary
  • The Scottish Highlands Along the North Coast 500
  • Time Magazine 100th Anniversary
  • Top 5 Scottish Castles
  • US History Texas Independence Day
  • Watergate 50th Anniversary
• February 2023
  • Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Barbados’ National Hero Rihanna
  • Crypto The Future of Money or a Scam
  • Everyday Dialogues Talking About the Weather
  • Henry VIII England’s Most Important Reign
  • Hidden Valley Road Inside the Mind
  • Lauren Groff Women Only
  • Londons' Little India Southall Brilliant Food
  • Mood and Climate The Psychology of Weather
  • Rihanna's Bajan Creole
  • Schizophrenia Hidden Valley Road
  • Short Story A Corruptive Influence
  • Southall London’s Little India
  • The Flying Scotsman British Railway History
  • The Isle of Wight The Royal Island
  • The White Lotus All About The Money
  • The Word of the Year Goblin Mode
  • Virtual Gold Crypto
• January 2023
  • A Floating Palace The Royal Yacht Britannia
  • A Short History of Chips
  • A Short Story Fame at Any Cost
  • A Very Modern Eccentric Laurence Sterne
  • American Royalty The Kennedys
  • Bono Surrender
  • Everyday Dialogues New Year's Resolutions
  • Isles of Scilly Land of Legends
  • Living History of York
  • Michelle Obama Lessons in Life
  • Oliver Cromwell England’s Republican Head
  • Selena Gomez Speaking Up On Mental Health
  • Surrender A Life In Songs
  • The Crown Season Five
  • The Final Journey Bobby Kennedy
  • The People's View
  • Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  • U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday
  • Witch Panic Daemonology In England
  • Witch Panic The Hunted
  • York The Rebel of the North
• December 2022
  • A Literary Boom #BookTok
  • A Novel Murder Mystery Cain’s Jawbone
  • A Seasonal History Christmas Through the Ages
  • A Short History Of Bagels
  • A Short Story A Solstice Warning
  • Ancient And Modern The City of London
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 40th Anniversary
  • East Anglia Waterways The Norfolk Broads
  • Everyday Dialogues A Book for Christmas
  • Happy Kwanzaa! Celebration of African Origins
  • Lillian Fishman Acts Of Service
  • Paddington Station London's Railway Cathedral
  • Political Turmoil in Britain (and Europe). Aaron Bastani.
  • The City of London Financial Hub and Roman Site
  • The Norfolk Broads A Maze Of Waterways
  • The World's Greatest Dramatist William Shakespeare
  • Tune Into English Wham! Last Christmas
  • Winter Solstice The Shortest Day of The Year
• November 2022
  • British Culture in One Word Quite!
  • From Tourism to Tax Haven Jersey
  • John Lennon Rock 'N' Roll Rebel
  • King Charles III Britain's Eco-Friendly King
  • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • Top 10 (part 2) of Iconic Figures Italian-Americans
  • Treasures Of Ancient Egypt Tutankhamun
  • Tutankhamun A Divine Ruler
• October 2022
  • A Short History of Breakfast Cereals
  • A Short Story A Fonder Heart
  • A Taste of Italy Italian American Culture
  • Adam Smith The Father Of Economics
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  • The End of an Era Elizabeth II (1926-2022)
  • The Future of Cash Digital Money
  • Top 5 Breakfast Cereal Brands
  • Top 5 Italian-Americans Iconic Figures