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History & The Arts
Election days: 1908 - Churchill challenged by the women
At the start of the 20th Century, it was expected that MPs granted a seat in cabinet would seek re-election before taking up the posts. Winston Churchill, offered the Presidency of the Board Of Trade, found himself fighting a by-election on behlaf of the Liberals in Manchester North West. His candidancy became a target for Suffragette action.
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History & The Arts
Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148
The radical John Wilkes had been pursued by the courts following his publication of a semi-pornographic parody of the work of Alexander Pope. His supporters returned him to the Commons as MP for Middlesex, but on the grounds of his conviction, Parliament had expelled him in February 1769, twice; and then again in March. He was re-elected every ...
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History & The Arts
How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom
Rhys James Jones traces the legendary Frank Sidebottom's roots back to the early days of home computing. (When "computing" was a thing you did, and doing it at home was especially noteworthy.)
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History & The Arts
Earth from above, 18th Century style
Hot air ballooning gave people the first chance to gaze down on the planet from the heavens - and quickly became a battleground between science and spectacle. Lily Ford gives an aerial view.
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Society, Politics & Law
An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers
You can judge a society by how it treats those most in needs. The last 200 years or so of criminalisation of the homeless doesn't reflect that well on the UK.
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Languages
Sylvia Plath and the linguistics of depression
Could the type of language people use reveal something about their state of mind? A close reading of Sylvia Plath's journals suggest it might be possible.
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Society, Politics & Law
Timeline: Marx, Nietzsche and Freud
Explore the lives and works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud with our interactive timeline.
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Digital & Computing
Porn licensing isn't the answer
The UK government thinks children can be protected from web porn by building barriers. Good luck with that, says Andrew Smith.
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Nature & Environment
The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster
Fifty years ago [March 1967] the Torrey Canyon ran aground between Cornwall and the Isles Of Scilly, splilling over 100 million litres of crude oil into the sea. To mark the anniversary, we're reproducing an article from WWT's Wildfowl magazine, where Dr J V Beer explains how the RSPCA and WWT tried to rehabilitate wildlife caught in the disaster.
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History & The Arts
Reporting in the fog of an attack
As Channel 4 News showed following the Westminster attacks, it can be easy for even the best journalists to slip up covering a fast-moving story.
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History & The Arts
Hound hub
Love labradors? Potty about poodles? Explore the Hound hub to find out more about our furry friends.
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History & The Arts
Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy
The emerging experimental philosophy movement, borrowing approaches from psychology, is interesting - but it can and should go further, believes Claire Hewson