One of the most urgent issues of our day is the degradation of the environment caused by human activity. A project by University of Portsmouth students is using interactive installations to provoke visitors to think [… read more ]
The Portsmouth branch of the UCU (University and College Union) has passed a motion questioning the arguments made in this recent article published in the Telegraph. The article claims that last year’s ‘Academic Reset’ at [… read more ]
The Portsmouth branch of the UCU (University and College Union) has voted to call on the University of Portsmouth (UoP) to make a public statement about the recent incidents of hate and violence that have [… read more ]
On December 9th, S&C Founding Editor and author Tom Sykes will be launching Tangled Saviours, an energetic, imaginative and self-aware novel of race, gender, culture, prejudice and redemption. Extraordinary characters connect across time and space [… read more ]
Writers and S&C Cultural Editors Sue Harper and Paul Valentine present two poems both entitled ‘Gaza’. Sue Harper Yahweh knocks on your door there is blood in his hair his teeth are [… read more ]
On Monday 3rd November 2025, families will gather outside Portsmouth City Council’s Civic Offices in Guildhall Square from 10:30 am to 1 pm as part of the national Every Pair Tells a Story movement. [… read more ]
Dan Musty’s latest films celebrate Black History Month in Portsmouth by shining a light on the pioneering work of Marie Costa and Honorine Djenaba-MacDonald in the city. He spoke to Ivana Domozetska about empowerment, creativity [… read more ]
Local writer and planetary modeller David Angus takes us on an epic hike through the Dolomites. First of all why the title? Answer: I build planets and the odd moon; model ones that is. Once [… read more ]
Writer Anne Paton-Cragg has adopted Portsmouth as her home town but has also lived in Sheffield, London, Paris, Helsinki and Singapore. Here she relates an awkward yet humorous experience she had while visiting Monaco. ‘That’s [… read more ]
Actor and writer John Bartlett whisks us back in time to the eccentric, ‘wondrously wayward’ life of Hampshire publican Dick Luff. The Queens Head, in the outwardly tranquil township of Sheet, is situated at the [… read more ]
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