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A new platform: female MPs and the quest for equal citizenship, by Abbie Tibbott
This Women’s History Month, it is important to remember some of the pioneers that stood on a very crucial platform, often against all odds. The collection of women that were successfully elected to UK Parliament in the 1920s represented women’s… Continue reading
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Pirate Legends: Matelotage and Mavericks – Celebrating LGBTQ+ History
On 28 December 1720, a court was convened in Spanish Town, Jamaica, whose audience bore witness to one of the Golden Age of Piracy’s penultimate acts of defiance. The final verdict decreed that the prisoners: ‘go from hence to the… Continue reading
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A Queer Past the Censorship, by Gabe
A record dated to January 1395 sees the ‘Examination of two men charged with immorality, of whom one implicated several persons, male and female, in religious orders’[1]. Arthur Hermann Thomas, the person who wrote that summary in 1932, skimmed very… Continue reading
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‘Pride’: Representing Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) in Cinema
After winning the Queer Palm award at the Cannes film festival, Pride (2014) grossed over £3.5million at the UK box office in its first month.[i] With such a reception, it was inevitable that Pride would come to be a widely… Continue reading
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Challenging the ‘Cistem’: The Importance of Diversity in Trans Representation, by Amy Austin
The policing of gender is nothing new, but in recent years the escalation in attacks against transgender and non-binary communities has seen fierce battles over the definition of ‘man’ and – more pointedly – ‘woman’ and who can be accepted… Continue reading
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Mini medieval ‘grete pyes’, by Dr Ruth J. Salter
Back in November, during the drinks reception ahead of our annual Stenton Lecture, I got chatting to our social media maven, Chessie Baldwin. Talk turned to History’s blog and what we’d be doing as our Christmas series this year …… Continue reading
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An American Christmas History, by Melanie Khuddro
When we think of the roots of our Christmas customs, we might typically think of nineteenth century England. The Victorian Royal family popularised the indoor, decorated tree in an image of them gathered around one which was published in Illustrated… Continue reading
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Pirate Legends Festive Special: A Caribbean Christmas Carol, by Luke Walters
‘Tis the season for merriment and comradery, and what better way to kick off this festive period than unwrapping a new edition of Pirate Legends. In this short and light-hearted entry, we’ll be taking a look at how pirates might… Continue reading
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Christmas in Mining Towns 1984: Turkey for a Striking Christmas, by Amy Longmuir
After two years of COVID uncertainty, family Christmas dinners are firmly back in festive plans as some form of normality returns for most people in the UK. Avian flu has, however, decimated a number of Christmas turkey and goose farms… Continue reading
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