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...history month in February 2017, the government announced it would pardon 49,000 men of sexual offences for homosexuality. While this is an important nod to justice, it is also a reminder of everyday injustices suffered by LGBT people in Britain when it was still a crime to be gay. Nearly 50 years ago, in July 1967, the government voted to partly decriminalise...

...history plays...[An English mastiff with a full moon background] A modern-day English Mastiff References to dogs in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries are frequent and diverse in character; many are to be found in arresting contexts bound up with displays of power and informal, ruthless responses to the poor. From the early Tudor morality play Magnificence...

...History, and it provided the context for my approach to Endell Street Military Hospital. [Deeds not Words banner] 'Deeds not words' banner. The women lived by the WSPU's motto and hoped that their good deeds at the hospital would prove women's equality. Endell Street's library was run by two prominent members of the Women Writers’ Suffrage League, which had been founded...