Russell Brand’s recent editorial in the New Statesman and his subsequent appearance on Newsnight has attracted a significant amount of scrutiny this week. Brand had a lot to say on his ‘disenchantment’ with British politics,
Last week we witnessed the Co-Operative Group lose its controlling share in its banking division to two US hedge funds, placing doubt in the future ethical stance the bank was committed to. We also recently
This year marks the anniversary of the docking of the merchant ship Empire Windrush at Tilbury in 1948. With a passenger list of British Subjects, most notably including 493 Jamaicans, Windrush has, in the intervening
On October 7 2013, I officially became an AHRC-funded fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. However, my induction did not take place at the Library’s classical Jefferson Building,
Beyond the Bailey is a project that I set up with the assistance of Sheffield's Practical Public Engagement module. It began with a creative writing workshop in which participants were introduced to online historical archives,
Within the walls of Sheffield General Cemetery is the only lasting legacy of a truly remarkable and peculiar event from Sheffield’s past. On the cemetery’s website one can explore its residents and discover the grave