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Interview with writer Julie Peakman: ‘I want to find women’s voices in history but also expose how badly we and marginalised men have been treated’

6th February 20206th February 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Author of a number of books relating to the history of sexuality, Julie Peakman’s new work, Licentious Worlds, offers a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire building around the world. Here, she talks to our arts contributor, Miriam Al Jamil, about her book and the research behind it.

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Posted in Books, Interviews, PoliticsTagged: colonialism, Empire, Feminism, history, Julie Peakman, Kathleen Wilson, Philippa Levine, Queer Studies, Reaktion Books, Robert Aldrich, Roy Porter, Sex, Sexuality and Eighteenth Century Culture, Shraddha Chatterjee

Boudica by Rosemary Appleton

6th October 20197th October 2019  Rosemary Appleton

Rosemary Appleton’s short poem, ‘Boudica’, vividly brings to life the final moments of the legendary rebel queen.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: boudica, Boudicca, Creative Writing, history, Legend, Myth, poem, Poetry, Tacitus
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