We are speaking, reading and writing about the Coronavirus crisis in new and rapidly changing ways. This is having a significant impact on our lives, on the way we think, on our values and morality, [… read more ]
I tell my children you are here because in 1913 a Maori chief gave the captain of HMS New Zealand a piupiu, a skirt made from flax. A ceremonial gift with the prophecy [… read more ]
JS Adams commends a new film that is at once a technically ingenious tribute to those who fought in World War I and a moving critique of their mistreatment in both the trenches and in [… read more ]
By Amanda Garrie We used to stand on street corners watching old men, fit for the slag heap, wondering if that were it: destined for the pit. We’d smoke our shag, curse everything and spit. [… read more ]
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 ]
In her latest profile of everyday yet remarkable Portsmouthians, S&C Contributing Editor Christine Lawrence meets a 103-year-old lady who recalls Zeppelins, D-Day and the Great Depression. Maud Mary Goodchild, known as Mary to her friends, [… 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 ]
JS Adams fears that the Brexit fallout could threaten our civil liberties, our economic relationship with the rest of the world and even peace and stability across Europe. I have no evidence that Brexit could trigger another [… read more ]
Tim Backhouse was a tireless chronicler of Portsmouth history until his untimely death last summer. Before S&C begins a season sharing his wonderfully unique work, Tim’s friend John Sadden offers this heartfelt tribute to the man and his achievements. [… 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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