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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 meaning of ‘saying sorry’: from late antiquity to the Ched Evans case

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How the Bible shapes contemporary attitudes to rape and sexual assault

Rhodes Must Fall: We need to face up to our imperial past

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