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Half-Hidden Histories: Olive Morris

Half-Hidden Histories is a blog series on the people, places, and things you probably didn’t learn about at school. This edition looks at Olive Morris, the remarkable Black British activist today featured as Google Doodle in the UK, on what would have been her 68th birthday. TRIGGER WARNING: physical & racial abuse, mention of sexual…

Half-Hidden Histories: Robert Gould Shaw III

Half-Hidden Histories is a blog series on the people, places, and things you probably didn’t learn about at school. In honour of Pride month, this edition looks at one of many LGBT+ figures arrested for homosexuality in 20th-century Britain: the son of Nancy Astor. TRIGGER WARNING: non-graphic discussion of suicide Robert Gould Shaw III (1898-1970)…


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