Sarah Cheverton reports on LGBT Pride, which comes to Portsmouth’s Victoria Park on Saturday 20th June 2015, twelve years since the last Pride event was held in the city and the first time a major, [… read more ]
This is the first of a series of interviews the Star & Crescent will be running with Shonagh Dillon, Chief Executive of Aurora New Dawn, a charity working with victims and survivors of domestic and [… read more ]
A short story by Maggie Sawkins. The police came the other day. I knew they were coming. That’s one good thing about living up here. You can see what’s going on. They wanted to know [… read more ]
Tom Sykes takes a brief look at some of the more incendiary moments in Portsmouth’s long and rich radical history. 1450 – After public protests against his high taxation policy and his refusal to pay local [… read more ]
Historian Richard Brooks asks what modern Portsmouth can learn from life in the Middle Ages. The star and crescent are ancient symbols of Portsmouth’s civic identity. They decorated the seal on the charter that brought [… read more ]
Invirtual Memorandum From: Prof. —- , Dean-for-Impact of Global Appropriation and Annexation Strategizing To: Dr —- , E-Provost-in-Chief of Knowledge Commodification Hey Dr —, Just back from the Planet Pedagogy E-Xpo in the enterprising metropolis [… read more ]
This is the first in a series of features in which local author and publisher Matt Wingett explores Portsmouth’s relationship to a long line of writers dating back to the Victorian era. In this issue, [… read more ]
Hannah McKellar-Ricketts considers the rise of UKIP and questions the scapegoating of immigrants for wider social problems in our city. Excuse me, but if immigration is such a big problem in Portsmouth, then why am I enjoying [… read more ]
In this regular feature, we select ten stories about Portsmouth taken from the national media. Huffington Post, ‘History is Now’ at Hayward Gallery searches for British identity Portsmouth journalist, Christine Lord, and her campaign for [… read more ]
Rosy Bremer explores the impact of slashing Council funding on the freedom of local residents to take a slash. Since 2010 we’ve all learnt a few more synonyms for cuts of all sorts. Efficiency savings [… read more ]
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