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Month: April 2016

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A Day in the Life of Hampshire’s Independent Stalking Advocate

29th April 2016

Our Editor in Chief, Sarah Cheverton is the Writer in Residence for local charity Aurora New Dawn, which runs Hampshire’s Stalking Advocacy Service. In the first of a series of posts – originally featured on [… read more ]

History

Tim Backhouse Season: The Life and Times of a Pompey Legend

28th April 2016

The late great local historian Tim Backhouse examines the life and times of a true Pompey hero. By the time that John Pounds died in 1839, he was, despite his modest and humble lifestyle, arguably [… read more ]

Culture

Nautical Chic: How Seafarers Shaped Fashion

27th April 2016

As part of the University of Portsmouth’s public lecture series, fashion historian Amber Jane Butchart recently discussed her new book at a packed lecture theatre in Eldon Building. Lizzie Wildgoose reports. Aided by a collection of images [… read more ]

Social Issues

Scamming a Scammer: An Epistolary Story Part I

26th April 2016

Most of us ignore those shady emails offering us dubious investment opportunities in far-flung lands. But not the Portsmouth poet Richard Williams. December 2nd 2015  Dear Friend, I am the first son of the late Mobutu Sese Seko, [… read more ]

News

Are We Letting The NHS Fail to Justify Privatising It?

25th April 2016

As local junior doctors prepare to join their colleagues across the country for next week’s strike action, Dr V. Wagner is raising awareness of the government’s ongoing attack on our health service – collating the [… read more ]

History

The Brain Behind the Big Screens

22nd April 2016

Historian Mick Collins exalts a little-known hero of Portsmouth cinema architecture and post-war reconstruction. Six years ago I was forced to take early retirement from a job that I really enjoyed. It was quite a blow [… read more ]

Culture

Lara Croft: An LGBT Icon?

21st April 2016

Tom Clement gets to the bottom of the rumours and speculations surrounding one of gaming’s greatest characters. Lara Croft is one of the world’s most recognisable video game characters, and 2016 marks her twentieth birthday. [… read more ]

Social Issues

Are We All Going Insta-ne?

20th April 2016

University of Portsmouth student Yordana Shopova examines how Instagram conjures an unrealistic image of the #perfectlife. What’s the first thing we do when we open our eyes in the morning? Go to the bathroom? Mmm… in a [… read more ]

Social Issues

Zero Tolerance for Drink Driving?

19th April 2016

Luke Ludbrook weighs up a controversial proposal to tackle drink driving both nationally and locally. I’m working behind the bar at a Portsmouth wake – a routine part of my job. It’s early afternoon and the [… read more ]

Culture

Merlin, Time Travel and Comfy Chairs

18th April 2016

Portsmouth University librarian Lizzie Wildgoose had a surreal surprise when she dropped in to her local branch of Blackwells the other day.  A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, or should that read [… read more ]

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