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    World War One & The Ukraine Crisis – ‘The Pity of War’ Reconsidered

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    Words by Joshua Hill Niall Ferguson’s The Pity of War became strikingly relevant last week as, nearly 100 years after the outbreak of the First World War, Russian troops advanced into Ukraine, a move the Ukrainian government described a declaration of war. But while the former escalated into a global conflict, the latter has so…

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    Bob Crow 1961 – 2014

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    When London Mayor Boris Johnson said: “I’m shocked. Bob Crow was a fighter and a man of character…” he was referring to Robert Crow, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail and Maritime Workers (RMT), who has died aged 52. The grandson of an East End boxer, Bob Crow was born in Shadwell, East…

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    LGBT in Punk Culture

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    ‘“I’m the shy boy, you’re the coy boy”: Punk, LGBT culture and politics in Britain’ – Dr David Wilkinson (University of Reading), Manchester Metropolitan University, 4th March 2014 What do you imagine when you think of Punk? Piercings? Green Mohican haircuts? Anti-social behaviour? Great music? Whatever you associate with the genre, something that may not…

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    21st Century Feminism

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      Feminism in the 21st Century event, 5th March 2014, The Friends Meeting House Organised to highlight the upcoming International Women’s Day, and to bring together a group of likeminded individuals, Feminism in the 21st Century: Privilege, Bias and Feminist Practice offered a platform for different academics and activists to air their views about the…

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    Ode to Third Year

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    Or, twenty three ways to manage that pesky dissertation when you have: zero motivation; an advisor who doesn’t appreciate your badass, not to mention entirely original ideas, a girlfriend who’s just dropped you, housemates with a clinical aversion to washing up, an inability to remember the last time you ate anything other than beans on…

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