Author: Niamh Bird

Fireworks. An invention first unintentionally discovered in 200 AD in China when bamboo was thrown on a fire and yet again in 800 AD when a foolhardy alchemist combined sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate together in an attempt to find internal life. The concoction exploded into what we now call fireworks. An invention born of brilliance, risk and high hopes seems a fitting thing to unleash into the skies above Loughborough campus, and the display was certainly eye catching. The event opened at 5:30, and though we were welcomed by rather a lot of rain, we didn’t let it dampen our spirits. We sheltered in the student union and soon the rain cleared just in time…