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Not Quite Jean Muir
Jade Halbert lectures in fashion but has never done any sewing. She swaps pen and paper for needle and thread to create a dress from a Jean Muir patt…
5 years, 9 months ago
Digging Deep
There is fascinating evidence that 5,000 years ago, people living in Britain and Ireland had a deep and meaningful relationship with the underworld s…
5 years, 9 months ago
Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
When Tom Smith sets out to research allegations of racism in Berlin’s club scene, he finds himself face to face with his own past in techno’s birthpl…
5 years, 9 months ago
Coming out Crip and Acts of Care
This Essay tells a story of political marches and everyday acts of radical care; of sledgehammers and bags of rice; of the struggles for justice wage…
5 years, 9 months ago
Tudor Virtual Reality
Advances in robotics and virtual reality are giving us ever more 'realistic' ways of representing the world, but the quest for vivid visualisation is…
5 years, 9 months ago
Ian Rankin and Tahmima Anam
Crime writer Ian Rankin talks with Tahmima Anam in a conversation organised in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and the Bradford Lite…
5 years, 10 months ago
Revisit: Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy, the Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner, is in conversation with Philip Dodd about a life in the public eye and the novel s…
5 years, 10 months ago
Rethinking the Curriculum
From a greater focus on Black history and poetry to classics in state school classrooms and an understanding of the history of science - Rana Mitter …
5 years, 10 months ago
Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohamed. Midsummer archaeology
The writing life of two authors who should have been sharing a stage at the Bare Lit Festival. Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohammed talk to Shahidha B…
5 years, 10 months ago
Queer Bloomsbury and stillness in art and dance
Francesca Wade and Paul Mendez talk to Shahidha Bari about Queer Bloomsbury in a conversation run in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature…
5 years, 10 months ago