The rich and complex histories of Black life in the UK have largely been omitted from popular narratives that present Britain as anti-racist. They must be remembered now
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By embracing Russia as its primary source of inspiration, ‘indi’ is protesting about the country’s socio-political problems in its own language.
US correspondents in Britain played a big part in convincing the American public to support the British war effort.
Recent excavations reveal that what was once thought to be a Bronze Age fort is actually much younger, and produce evidence of a huge settlement that was home to 4,000 people.
Women’s sport makes up about 4% of all sports coverage. But during the lockdown, that has shrunk to almost nothing.
Could the pandemic be the end of the women’s game? Action must be taken to safeguard it.
Cardiff University’s news diary study during the pandemic found the public were confused about a number of issues and became more critical of the UK government.
A year after retiring as the UK’s poet laureate, Duffy is finding new ways to express herself.
Medieval disaster response was not so different to the measures we use today.
Statues and monuments have been used to present a revisionist history in which empire was great while omitting the violence they subvertly celebrate.
Dickens’s novels highlighted the poverty of education for the working classes. The all-important Education Act was finally passed in the year of his death.
Britain’s heritage is steeped in the remnants and history of slavery, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it.
How did one student’s anti-BBC social media campaign take off so rapidly?
Almost as soon as Dickens died in 1870, writers and illustrators began to take liberties with his life and career.
PODCAST: An audio version of an in depth article on what newly discovered documents reveal about the burial of Charles Dickens, 150 years after his death.
Two sequels which show how the Victorian novelist’s stories can be adapted to reflect post-colonial narratives.
The BBC has just appointed its 17th male director general. It needs to work harder towards gender equality all round.
Dickens had some clever little narrative tricks, which become clear when his work is analysed as a single data set.
Facing a hostile government and a financial squeeze, the new boss of the UK’s public broadcaster has his work cut out for him.
The history of early Christianity shows the power of the Bible used as a sign of resistance against repression at the hands of the Romans.
Literary responses to global lockdowns reveal haunting parallels with how people negotiated the invisible threat of radiation after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.
Now that we are gradually emerging from lockdown, we don’t have to return to our old rushed way of living.
Charles Dickens’s attitude towards women was more complex than ‘misogynist’ label suggests.
Poets and the wealthy were angered by those who saw their opportunity to rise above their station after the plague.
There’s something special about “going to the cinema” and the collective experience of watching a film.