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The year 1969 is held up as the end of an era, but fifty years on are we still buying into a dangerous myth? Counterculture expert James Riley delves...

One hundred and fifty years since the first women were allowed to study at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Library will be sharing...

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy, the most celebrated literary response to the Peterloo massacre – which has its bicentenary on 16 August –...

Priyamvada Gopal (Faculty of English) discusses freedom as a practice rather than a value to be worshipped.

Matthew Machin-Autenrieth (Faculty of Music) discusses flamenco and its use as a tool of social activism.

The story of how ‘one of the last villages in London’ was saved from demolition to make way for the British Library is the subject of new research and...

When radical feminists took their cause from Europe to North Africa, the outcome was a deepening of the divides they sought to break down. Social...