Alex Walker reflects on the successes and failures of two presidents who occupy very different positions in the historical imagination.
Category: People
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.
Mukhlisa Bubi: the first female Qadi
Fairuz Farhoud writes on the legacy of Mukhlisa Bubi, a Muslim judge, educator and campaigner in a hostile revolutionary Russia.
Selling love with Veronica Franco
In Renaissance Venice, poets and sex workers made their living by selling different versions of love. Chloe Johnson remembers a woman who straddled the divide.
Pritilata Waddedar: the ‘firebrand daughter’ of Bengal
Jeevan Sanghera recalls the radical afterlife of a 21-year-old anticolonial activist.
