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The Writer as Memory Activist

Antonia Wimbush explores how cultural works preserve the overlooked memories of Caribbean migration to France through the BUMIDOM program and challenge France’s national narrative.

July 2, 2025
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Writing about State Violence: Commemoration & Collaboration

Michael Demson discusses the essays contributed to a new edited collection on Peterloo.

Carla Hepburn
June 28, 2019

Percy Bysshe Shelley and the British National Anthem

By Alison Morgan ‘A New National Anthem’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley is probably one of his least known poems. Written in 1820, in the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre, Shelley’s poem is a paean to the female queen Liberty rather…

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May 20, 2014

The Writer as Memory Activist

Writing about State Violence: Commemoration & Collaboration

Percy Bysshe Shelley and the British National Anthem

The Writer as Memory Activist

Translating Bréhier: How did The Theory of Incorporeals in Ancient Stoicism come to be?

Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms

Q&A with Daniel Behar, author of Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity

Trans media’s expanding horizons