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Mukhlisa Bubi: the first female Qadi

August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in People

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

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in People

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

July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in People

Jeevan Sanghera recalls the radical afterlife of a 21-year-old anticolonial activist.

Mended or ended: the legacy of Roger Casement

July 27, 2020July 28, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in People

Liam Caldwell writes about Roger Casement's groundbreaking work, which was sullied by reports of homosexuality circulated by the British government that executed him.

Re-evaluating the mother country

July 26, 2020July 28, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in People

Leah Charlotte Nuttall looks back to the racism experienced by three members of the Windrush generation on their first arrival in the UK.

Misremembering Frida Kahlo

July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in People

Abigail Priestley asks whether the great Marxist artist would have recognised herself in the tote bags and fridge magnets now adorned with her face.

A socialite revolution: Sophia Duleep Singh

July 21, 2020July 28, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in People

Kim Singh Sall revisits an overlooked hero of the suffrage movement and the struggle for Indian independence.

Henrietta Lacks and the history of health racism

July 21, 2020July 28, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in People

Edd Jones asks how we should remember a woman who enabled some of the biggest medical breakthroughs of the 20th century - without her knowledge or consent.

Boudica: making an imperial myth

July 21, 2020November 12, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in People

Meabh Diffley considers the reconstruction of Boudica as a poster girl for the imperial mentality she died trying to defeat.

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