Have you ever wanted to visit a recording studio and perform for posterity? Supported by Portsmouth Creates, Pens of the Earth are offering people in the Portsmouth area two day-long opportunities to attend a practical [… read more ]
Travel writer and planetary modeller David Angus has just realised a lifelong dream: to fly a Spitfire. This is the story of that trip. It was a dual controlled Spitfire. The real pilot in the [… read more ]
Can you learn how to be a good writer? Yes and no. You can learn the skill, but you can’t learn the creativity. A good writer has creativity, thoughts, feelings, passion. A good writer has [… read more ]
Supporting the charity Arms Around the Child, Escape to the Farm is a day-long festival celebrating well-being, the arts, and community, taking place at Rushmere Farm in Hambledon on Saturday, 6th September 2025. Attendees are [… read more ]
The horrors of nuclear war will be confronted at a series of events at the University of Portsmouth and Southsea Library on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (15-17 July). Among the speakers will be Tom Unterrainer, [… read more ]
Filmmaker and journalist Habibur Rahman explains how a disconnected telephone is moving around Portsmouth as a symbolic tool for connecting people and as a means of documenting powerful local stories. Based on the principle [… read more ]
Residents of Portsmouth South and members of the Portsmouth Resistance Collective have picketed the office of Stephen Morgan MP, with placards reading ‘Don’t Proscribe Palestine Action’, ‘Stop the RAF Spy Flights for Israel’, and ‘We [… read more ]
Portsmouth and District Unite Community is calling a protest against the savage cuts to Personal Independence (PIP) Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance (ESA), reports trades unionist and activist Alan Burgess. The protest will take [… read more ]
In light of events in the United States and the ramifications across the world, the Portsmouth branch of the UCU (University and College Union) has voted to call on the University of Portsmouth (UoP) to [… read more ]
The University of Portsmouth (UoP) branch of the UCU (University and College Union) has voted for a motion calling for ‘University management to work in concert with the unions to strengthen its democratic accountability within [… read more ]
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