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Women to the Barricades: Gendering the Battle of Cable Street

by Julie Gottlieb on October 6, 2016

Probably the most poignant and instantly ‘legendary’ image of the still ongoing unrest triggered by police shootings of black men in various US cities is that of Black Lives Matter-protester Ieshia Evans, a 28-year-old mother

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The Guinea Pigs of Oakholme Road: Pacifism and Medical Research in Wartime Sheffield

The Monarchy and the Next Great Depression

(Dead) kings and queens history: Richard III and the car park saga

Maintaining the Status Quo?: A Brief History of History at the University of Sheffield

Why Study the History of Child Abuse and Infant Death?

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