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Fighting the colour bar
Shirin Hirsch explores the way boxer Len Johnson fought a Manchester pub ban.
Land and soil politics
Jim Scown on the links between Goethe, George Eliot and the storming of the US Capitol.
Stupid Victorians
Louise Creechan looks at the impact of 19th-century ideas about intelligence.
Children of the Waters
Sabina Dosani on the ritual of Mizuko Kuyo and modern ceremonies marking miscarriage.
The discordant tale of Thomas Weelkes
Ellie Chan looks at the life and music of the Tudor composer who died 400 years ago.
Revolutionary free speech
Clare Siviter looks at attempts to liberate and then censor expression in 1790s France.
Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice
Oskar Jensen tells the tall tale of a court case inspired by a best-selling novel.
A family of witches
Emma Whipday explores the demonisation of single mothers in English witch trials.
Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea
The father of modern computing thought the sea could communicate. Joan Passey tells us why
The South African Bloomsberries
Jade Munslow Ong reads 20s writing by Solomon T Plaatje, Roy Campbell and William Plomer.
