A (Very) Brief History of Transgenderism
Happy Transgender Awareness Week! That start alone will have been enough to deter some people from reading on. They’ll think ‘typical lefty snowflake student’ and ‘transgenderism doesn’t even exist’. Now…
Ciaran Picker
‘We Cannot Edit Our Past’: The Dangers of Removing Political Debate from Schools
There is no denying the importance of education, especially in our formative school years. We learn how and why things happen and use that information to form opinions about the…
Coronavirus: Learn From the Past to Help the Present
George Santayana once said that "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it". Looking back at the 20th Century Spanish Flu Pandemic, what does it teach…
The First Feminist: How Mary Wollstonecraft Changed The World
To many people, Mary Wollstonecraft is merely a name to remember for GCSE History when learning about the Suffrage movement of the late-19th and early-20th Century. She is known for…
Talkin’ ‘Bout A Revolution: Music in the American Civil Rights Movement
The USA: the largest global economy, the self-titled world’s police, the so-called ‘home of freedom’. All pretty impressive titles, but to what extent the latter two are accurate is certainly…
Bi-Visibility: How The Media Plays A Part In Bi-Erasure
Sexuality has, in recent years, become a highly discussed societal topic. The more conservative among us use it to point to an ever more politically correct and ‘liberal’ world in…
Proud to be British?
Winston Churchill, tea, democracy. All things we consider fundamental symbols of ‘Britishness’. They are things, or rather people, in which we are supposed to find inspiration, pride and patriotism. We…
1919: the beginning of modern feminism?
1919: politics is controlled by men, business is controlled by men, in fact, the world is run by men. 100 years later, what’s changed? The answer is, sadly, not a…
We Will Remember Them: How World War One Shaped the Modern World
The 11th November 1918 saw the end of the ‘Great War’. An estimated 15-19 million people had been killed, a further 23 million military personnel had been wounded, and 8…
State Champs Review
From New York to Newcastle: Living Proof that pop-punk isn’t dead.