By Helen Elliott Pastel palette beach huts Sun-bleached on the Solent, pebbled sands, Awaiting summer’s curtain call The closing of her seasonal demands. On the morrow, they stand weary To greet autumn aurora with [… read more ]
Tom Sykes explores the ethical problems with Portsmouth University’s ongoing involvement with the international arms trade. In 1969, Professor Noam Chomsky joined a commission to investigate the financing of his university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [… read more ]
Chief Executive of Aurora New Dawn, Shonagh Dillon, talks to Sarah Cheverton about the tragic murder of Meredith Kercher and what it reveals about attitudes to female victims of violent crime in Portsmouth and Hampshire. [… read more ]
Cathy Fox is an independent investigator into historic child abuse. Here she tells the story of Portsmouth man Les Cummings, who suffered horrifically at the hands of foster parents and children’s home employees in the 1950s and 1960s. [… read more ]
Matt Wingett recounts spiritualism in Southsea as experienced by one of Portsmouth’s most famous former residents, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. One night in a darkened hotel room in Southsea, a group of convinced Spiritualists joined [… read more ]
Christine Lawrence takes a walk around St James’ Hospital, tracing the long history of the building and recalling her time working there in the 1980s as she wonders about the plans to sell and convert [… read more ]
by Guy Walker In Memoriam _________ __________ (Died in Syria aged 20 in 2014) Our city empty of you, absence your sole parting gift. Familial fabric rent and only threads left. In year eight [… read more ]
Pompey Street Finds by Abigail Gilchrist and Jo Willoughby of Stair/Slide/Space.
JS Adams imagines a dystopian future for Portsmouth and its iconic landmarks, which may not be as far off as we might have hoped… “…In a decaying society, art if it is truthful, Must also [… read more ]
Guy Walker imagines the future of Portsmouth if the city modelled itself on Venice. A flat, wide lagoon reflects dazzling light. The saline waters seem still, almost stagnant. A smudge on the distant skyline shimmers [… read more ]
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