Protest & Civil Rights

Why have some women historians been so critical about a recent considerable feminist achievement? It is a question that has preoccupied me over the last few weeks as I have read some very negative comments

The 50th Anniversary of the Selma marches has once again brought the Civil Rights Movement into public view. The conventional story is one many are familiar with, and always a popular GCSE History topic, as

From the author of Agincourt comes a new interpretation of the Peasant's Revolt. Two University of Sheffield second-year history undergraduates put it to the test: Frankie Baldwin, 2nd year history student Juliet Barker’s England Arise begins at the

Last week's events in Ferguson have a depressing historical familiarity. Police violence in a context of racial inequality, followed by the emergence of civil unrest, does not look unusual to those studying race relations in

The media coverage of the decision to exonerate the policeman who killed an unarmed black teenager has focused on the ‘night of rage’ in Ferguson, Missouri. Tragedies like Michael Brown’s in Missouri and Trayvon Martin’s

A few days ago, the UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced that a future Conservative government would revoke legislation that embeds the European Convention on Human Rights into British law. Since then, leading members of the current