Chas Newkey-Burden writes on the songs and poetry of Bobby Sands, a figure best known for his election as an MP, his hunger strike, and ultimately, his death.
Category: People
Dismantling racist mathematics
Ray Mwareya and Nyasha Bhobo speak to Pali Lehohla, the statistician tasked with dismantling apartheid South Africa's racist data-collection systems in the 1990s.
Songs of resistance
Clare Church considers the contributions made by three iconic performers to the cause of Free France during World War II.
Two Americas: the legacies of JFK and LBJ
Alex Walker reflects on the successes and failures of two presidents who occupy very different positions in the historical imagination.
It’s relative: family history and Ireland’s original Bloody Sunday
Niamh Carroll's great-grandfather was shot by British soldiers 100 years ago. Here, she reflects on the effects of oral history on political perspective.
Disappearing children: after the Sixties Scoop
Alicia Colson remembers the brutality of a policy that saw seven generations of Indigenous Canadian children stolen from their parents.
Challenging norms: the memory of Baroness Elsa
Dillon Whitehead looks at the radical legacy of one of Dada's most iconic artists.
Nellie Bly and the changing face of journalism
Meghna Amin remembers the 23-year-old woman who revolutionised investigative journalism.
‘Mere gatherers of roots’: David Attenborough’s colonial perspectives
Jack Guise observes how the iconic documentary-maker's earliest films reflected the colonial anxieties of their time.
Chernobyl’s forgotten generation
Charles MacNeice looks back at the human cost of a disaster known only for its political consequences.
