We are delighted to present the latest publication from our symposium with Harrow School in the shape of ‘To Bee or Not to Bee’ – a series of essays from NHEHS Year 10 and Harrow Remove students. The symposium, chaired by Dr Pearce, was a culmination of several weeks of work hosted at both schools and via Google Meet.

The “NHEHS – Harrow Remove/Year 10” Symposium, now in its third year, is a challenging cross-subject research project which allows the most scholarly students at Harrow and NHEHS to learn to collaborate, whilst developing their appetite for challenging material and real scholarship.

Students worked in groups of four, with two from each school to produce an academic article, using original sources, and produce a presentation. The questions are drawn from different subject disciplines, all loosely tied to a central theme. Articles were then published in a journal which explores the topic of Bees from a number of different academic angles, from Literature to Linguistics, Ecology to Economics, and Mathematics to Musical Semiotics.

We hope you enjoy reading the wide range of topics from the symbol of the bee in history to the economics of the Nigerian honey industry!