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Fashion Stories: In a handbag
Oscar Wilde's famous line from The Importance of Being Earnest focuses on what we might not expect to find - Shahidha Bari's essay considers the rang…
4 years, 1 month ago
Fashion Stories: Body Armour
"My lady's corselet" was developed by a pioneer of free verse on the frontlines of feminism, the poet Mina Loy. Celebrated in the 1910s as the quinte…
4 years, 1 month ago
Blackmail & Shame
An artist murdered in his studio - the blackmailer thinks he knows who removed vital clues. This plot from Charles Bennett premiered in London's West…
4 years, 1 month ago
New Thinking: Women’s history
Sex strikes suggested by Suffragettes, a theatre company devoted to exploring the experiences of women in the UK prison system and the campaign to ma…
4 years, 1 month ago
New Thinking: Women’s history
Sex strikes suggested by Suffragettes, a theatre company devoted to exploring the experiences of women in the UK prison system and the campaign to ma…
4 years, 1 month ago
Sisters
The Unthank sisters, writers Lucy Holland and Oyinkan Braithwaite and historian and feminist activist Sally Alexander join Shahidha Bari for a conver…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Generation Gap
Before Them, We is a photographic project by Ruth Sutoyé and also the title of an anthology of poems in which a group of poets of African descent ref…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain
Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives.
4 years, 1 month ago
Climate change, nature and art
Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives.
4 years, 1 month ago
Perfecting The Body
After Iraq and Afghanistan, solider Harry Parker turned author and has written a study of the way robotics, computing and AI might be about to irrevo…
4 years, 2 months ago