In the second part of our exclusive interview, Veterans for Peace‘s Southeast of England Coordinator Graham Horne talks to Tom Sykes about combat stress, the relationship between the military and the education system and how [… read more ]
Veterans for Peace (VfP) is a group of ex-military personnel committed to raising awareness about the human, social and economic costs of war. It is opposed to the use of war by any nation to achieve [… read more ]
The name of Chubb has been synonymous with the most secure form of locks for 200 years and it was in Portsea that the family business established itself in 1804. The late great local historian [… read more ]
S&C Contributing Editor John Oke Bartlett never really knew his father, who served in the Royal Navy in World War II. Now, some years after her death, he’s compelled to record as much as he [… read more ]
Imaginary words written by a sailor on board HMS M33 – Gallipoli 1915 I lift the lid and find his whole life harboured here; things that he kept safe: a photo of his wife Mary [… read more ]
As part of the University of Portsmouth’s public lecture series, fashion historian Amber Jane Butchart recently discussed her new book at a packed lecture theatre in Eldon Building. Lizzie Wildgoose reports. Aided by a collection of images [… read more ]
Actor and playwright John Bartlett spins an atmospheric yarn of love, tragedy and the lash set in the Portsmouth dockyard of old. “Farewell, farewell my own true love, this parting gives me pain You’ll be my hope, [… 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 ]
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