Migration Museum: NHS Exhibition review
The Migration Museum’s ‘Heart of the Nation’ exhibition explores how migrants built Britain’s NHS, even in the face of systemic racism.
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From Gill Sans, to Sans Gill: The Controversy over the Work of Eric Gill
Content warning: Rape, sexual abuse On January 12, 2022, an activist used a ladder to …
Collective punishment and colonial terror: The lessons of Britain’s war in Malaya
Britain’s military policies during the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) not only inflicted untold suffering upon the …
Alexander the Great in Skopje: an “up yours” to Greece?
Since Macedonian independence in 1991, following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Greece has contested the country’s …
Diego de Landa: From Monasteries to Roundabouts
As a leading Franciscan bishop, in the mid-16th century Fray Diego de Landa led an …
Medicine and Colonization: How Scientific Research Shapes Politics
In recent months we have seen a wave of renaming initiatives around the world, which …
Empty Spaces: Where are the Statues to Imperial Victims?
In the midst of a revolution against problematic historical statues, we might reflect on the …
An Interview with Isabella Hammad: Part Two
This is the second part of an interview with Isabella Hammad, the author of The Parisian: an epic tale of a Palestinian man’s journey beginning at the outbreak of the First World War.
An Interview with Isabella Hammad: Part One
We had a chance to chat with The Parisian’s author, Isabella Hammad, about the broader …
Sir John A. Macdonald: National Hero or Architect of Genocide?
On Saturday August 29, 2020, Black Lives Matter and Indigenous Rights protestors unbolted and pulling …
Horatio Nelson: Turning a blind eye to slavery?
Some of the monuments currently under the spotlight depict individuals who were lost in the …
