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Social Movements

A short, esoteric history of eye protection down the ages

Nothing captures the fickle nature of fashion and cultural trends better than this humble accessory. Sunglasses came to us en masse only because of a capricious combination of technology, market opportunism and coiffure. Here's how it went down. Hollywood movie stars—seeking to avoid the harsh Southern Californian ...

Pank-A-Squith: The Board Game of the Political Movement

Aunt Lavinia has made the tea—Lady Grey, as befits a late Autumn evening with the nights drawing in and frost crackling underfoot—and set out the toasted tea-cakes. It's time to settle in for a genteel game of Pank-a-Squith, the game that celebrates mass arrests, hunger strikes, and the growing militancy of the ...

Christabel Pankhurst—The Militant Who Led Women to The Vote

History has not been kind to Christabel Pankhurst. Male historians have, by and large, accepted her sister Sylvia's account of events surrounding the Pankhursts, recorded in Sylvia's 1931 book The Suffragette Movement. Consequently, Christabel's work (and her significant influence) during a critical period for ...