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)

Half-Hidden Histories: The Mangrove Nine

Half-Hidden Histories is a blog series on the fascinating people, places, and things you probably didn’t learn about at school. During a brutally hard time in the world, this edition looks at a seminal moment of Black activism in the UK. Frank Crichlow & The Mangrove Nine Perhaps not as hidden as some of the

Half-Hidden Histories: Marie Lebour

Half-Hidden Histories is a blog series on some insanely cool people, places, and things you probably didn’t learn about at school. First up is the life of a truly remarkable marine biologist whose legacy still lives in academia today… Marie Lebour (1876-1971) Worldwide, children know the name of groundbreaking female scientist Marie Curie, but it