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Right to protest

Is the right to protest really the right to pursue happiness?

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Why pandemic denial is nothing new

Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.

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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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A wee spot of bother

Euphemisms can both appear to diminish experiences while at the same time making them easier to talk about. Carrie Hynds, who experienced the latter part of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”, explores the relationship between language and trauma.

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  • The New Hospital for French Protestants, Victoria Park.
  • The martyrdom of the Irish Protestants: the Protestants are dragged naked through the bogs, hung on tenter hooks, tied to poles and left to die. Etching by T. Stothard.
  • The martyrdom of seventy Protestants in Rome: a man kneels outside a prison, having the executioner covering his eyes with his hands and is about to have his throat cut while monks avert their eyes in horror. Etching after D. Dodd.
  • A. Moreton "The protestant monastery...", 1727.
  • Note in a Ledger from the Protestant Sisters of Charity
  • Limerick Protestant Orphan Hall, Limerick, Ireland. Wood engraving after W. Fogerty, 1856.
  • Above, the martyr Cuthbert Simpson is tortured on the rack in the Tower of London; below, Roger Holland, a Protestant priest, christens his child secretly in the Protestant faith. Engraving with etching, 1812.
  • Hong Kong: the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • Four Protestant reformers translating the Bible. Lithograph by L. Noel after P.A. Labouchère, 1847.
  • The grave of John Keats in the Protestant cemetery of Rome, Italy. Etching by J.L. Chapman, 1863.
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