Emily Priest reviews the first Special Collections event at the University of Portsmouth Library and finds a treasure trove of local history and culture that many local residents have yet to discover. On the 25th [… read more ]
Portsmouth University student Eleanor O’Donnell believes Gosport gets a rough deal from locals and visitors alike. Here, she makes a passionate argument for giving our sister town across the water a second look. Now that [… read more ]
By John Pearson I am the man-length canvas pulled out of store, strung between grey bulkheads ready to still the pitch and roll of any ship. I am a solitary place a cocoon to relieve [… read more ]
If there was ever a good time to think about what diversity and inclusion mean in Britain today, the time is now argues Dianna Djokey, as she examines the role of the city’s museums in [… read more ]
CCITV, the television station of the University of Portsmouth’s faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) recently made a special programme about cultural diversity and activity in Portsmouth. One of Star and Crescent’s Editors-in-Chief, Tom [… read more ]
Dianna Djokey and Fiona Smythe from the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth and Ahmet Baştürk join DJ Ritu on the A World in London radio series in a special broadcast on the [… read more ]
Writer and artist Gareth Rees sometimes feels alienated from his home town… until he makes his way to the delightful Rock Gardens and their language of fragrance. Population-wise Portsmouth is of course a city, but the [… read more ]
Tessa Ditner examines Portsmouth’s credentials as the historic corsetry capital of the world. Corsets. A frivolous topic isn’t it? It’s like writing about the politics of Dairy Milks. Yet corsetry from the point of view [… read more ]
Chad Wilkinson explores Ingress, a global augmented reality online role playing game with a keen following in Portsmouth. A mass of hooded figures form a convoy outside Portsmouth’s Guildhall. Heads and shoulders bowled forwards, shielding [… read more ]
By Alison Habens Part II (Part I can be found here) This is a story of four thousand words. When Tripp and Crowley had moved on to torment another soul, I was able to read [… read more ]
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