family history – Star & Crescent

Portsmouth Writers’ Season: David E. Gates

10th April 2019

When you’ve nothing left to lose, what else can you give? Access Denied by David E. Gates is a deeply personal and heart-wrenching account of a man who becomes a father only to discover several [… read more ]

A Casualty of the Great War?

20th April 2017

S&C Contributing Editor John Oke Bartlett revisits a family mystery of war, trauma and Christmases past. Nana didn’t talk much about life with her first husband Victor Nash. According to my parents’ marriage certificate, Victor had [… read more ]

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How Has Covid-19 Affected Start-Ups and Small Businesses in Portsmouth?

11th August 2020

The pandemic has been a game-changer for local businesses, and when Covid-19 hit, local entrepreneur and founder of StartUp Disruptors, Becky Lodge, was galvanised into action. Here she explains why she wanted to get involved [… read more ]

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How has Covid-19 Affected POC, Migrants and Refugees in Portsmouth?

5th August 2020

Dianna Djokey shares why she’s reporting on the impact of Covid-19 on people of colour (POC), migrants, and asylum seekers and refugees in Portsmouth. Connection and togetherness seem more important to me during the current [… read more ]

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How has Covid-19 Affected Portsmouth’s Voluntary Sector?

3rd August 2020

S&C has recently launched a new project to capture the impact of Covid-19 on different communities and sectors in Portsmouth. Paris Ali-Pilling explains how his experience of working with S&C over the past year has [… read more ]

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Migrants, Refugees and Covid-19 in Portsmouth: Tell Us Your Stories

31st July 2020

S&C has recently launched a new project to capture the impact of Covid-19 on different communities and sectors in Portsmouth. Here Covid-19 Community Reporter Paris Ali-Pilling explains how experiencing the immigration system firsthand made him [… read more ]

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Tell Us About Shielding, Disabilities and Covid-19 in Portsmouth

30th July 2020

S&C has recently launched a new project to capture the impact of Covid-19 on different communities and sectors in Portsmouth. Here Covid-19 Community Reporter Rosy Bremer explains why, as a local resident living with a [… read more ]