William Manchester was a scared young American, flung down on the island of Okinawa during the Second World War and expected to act with...

On the 29 June 1864, a military surgeon in the 21st Kentucky Infantry wrote to his wife. ‘It has been almost one continued stream of...

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We are never told her name. None of the soldiers encircling her would have been interested in such niceties. The only relevant...

God, the source of natural law is dead: long live international law, with its hallowed spectre, human rights. State-sponsored terror,...

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The three sites of cruelty I will explore are (firstly) hierarchies of sentience, (secondly) wartime wounding, and (thirdly) sexual...

Marianne Elliott is one of the greatest living historians of Ireland, with books that have changed the way we think about revolution and...

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Judith Pamela Butler is the most widely read philosopher on the planet and the most influential voice in contemporary gender theory....

Jude Kelly is known to millions of people around the world. She is a theatre director, with more than 100 productions to her name....

‘If we are to end violence against women and girls, we need to create seismic shifts across our social norms’. So says Marai Larasi,...

When Birkbeck was established in 1823, it was called the London Mechanics’ Institution. It was one of the first ‘mechanics’ institutes’...

On 4 March 2020, the Black feminist organisation Imkaan launched a report in the Houses of Parliament on sexual violence against...

On 12 June 1993, the editors of the British Medical Journal published an account by a male doctor of being sexually assaulted by another...