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Dr James Riley

Did the Sixties dream die in 1969?

01 Nov 2019

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...

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Cambridge University Library unveils the rich histories, struggles and hidden labours of Women at Cambridge

05 Sep 2019

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

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Print of The Peterloo Massacre by Richard Carlile (1819)

Shelley’s Peterloo poem took inspiration from the radical press, new research reveals

16 Aug 2019

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

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Manchester protest (27 September 2014)

Opinion: How free are we really?

30 Oct 2015

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

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Flamenco

Flashmobs and flamenco: how Spain’s greatest artform became a tool for political protest

23 Oct 2015

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

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This area will be destroyed...

How people power saved Bloomsbury from destruction

17 Jul 2014

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...

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Inna Shevchenko of Femen

“Nudity does not liberate me and I do not need saving”

26 Jul 2013

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...

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