Category: People

Fairuz Farhoud writes on the legacy of Mukhlisa Bubi, a Muslim judge, educator and campaigner in a hostile revolutionary Russia.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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