Category: Features
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The Importance of “A Struggle Against a Common Enemy” in Building Coalition Between Mining and Queer Communities During the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike
Lauren Hood examines the miners across Britain who began striking in March 1984 against job cuts, with support from lesbian and gay groups. This formed a coalition based on shared struggles against government oppression and advocating for their communities.
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Over a Century Gone: Echoes of Leopold’s Congo in the Cobalt Mining Industry
Roya Kenny explores the long term legacy Belgian colonial rule has left on the Congo and its mining industry
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Going Against the Soviet Leadership: A Timeline of the Prague Spring of 1968
Helene Chaligne discuses Alexander Dubček rise to power in Czechoslovakia, initiating the Prague Spring with his push for reforms, including “socialism with a human face.” Despite initial success, Soviet intervention crushed the movement, reinstating severe censorship. The aftermath inspired future resistance and led to the eventual democratization in 1989.
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Ethics of Looking: The Appeal of Female Agony
Ami John analyses the contentious but deeply relevant idea of female agony through the lens of the ancient Roman sculpture, Nymph and Satyr.
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The Day the Middle Ages Died: Rethinking the Renaissance Myth
Tara Laize challenges the classic story that Europe suddenly emerged from darkness into the Renaissance.
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Oink Oink Mr President: The Pig that Threatened War between the US and Britain
Kate Taylor recounts the unlikely chain of events in 1859 that nearly triggered a full-scale conflict between two global powers—all because of a single pig on San Juan Island
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The Great Emu War
Elizabeth Hall details the ‘Great Emu War’ of Australia, considering the worldwide economic instability which caused it, as well as how farmers and the Australian Government reacted.
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The Death (and Rebirth) of the British Wildcat Strike
Finley Farrell explores why the wildcat strike declined in Britain during the Thatcher era, before discussing the recent revival of this form of protest.
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