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Classified ads to club culture – what archives reveal about queer history

Classified ads to club culture – what archives reveal about queer history

by Talking Humanities | Nov 21, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources

The legal and social pressures exerted on LGBTQ+ people to suppress their desire and loves may have had success in the eyes of their oppressors. But the subcultures it created are rich and varied and recorded in ways that don’t take much to research and share. And an...
Women and the Law: fighting gender bias for more than 30 years

Women and the Law: fighting gender bias for more than 30 years

by Talking Humanities | May 1, 2018 | Politics & Law, Publications

Professor Diamond Ashiagbor and Steven Whittle introduce the republished Women and the Law, the first book in the UK to examine how the law has perceived and responded to women. Women and the Law, one of the first modern books of its kind, was originally published in...
Rise of the populist movement poses new challenges for human rights

Rise of the populist movement poses new challenges for human rights

by Talking Humanities | Jun 22, 2017 | Events, Human Rights, Politics & Law

Sonya Rahaman, MPhil/PhD research student at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and coordinator of its Human Rights Researchers’ Network, discusses the current challenges facing the human rights movement and explains why more academics are engaging in...

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