Authored by Izzy Maundrill This article investigates the work and life of Emmy Noether, a mathematician and scientist who invented an incredibly important theory and worked alongside major male scientists at a time where women’s advanced education was rare. She is characterized by her friend and colleague Einstein as ‘the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began’, and yet she faced much discrimination in her fie

Authored by Izzy Maundrill The Carnation Revolution is a story of peaceful protest that had a huge effect on the Portuguese government and is a shining example of democracy in action. It is a message of rebellion told by songs on the radio, a symbolic flower, and the power of the working class. The Estado Novo Regime ‘the walls have ears’ Portugal had been under the Estado Novo regime started by Oliveira Salazar for over four decades by 1974. It utilized methods such as secre

Authored by Violet Moffat Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a novel that examines the relationship between Constance ‘Connie’ Chatterley and her husband’s gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Set in the Post-World War One English Midlands, it blends the realities of the Upper-Class domain and Working-class Britain. As the relationship with her husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, breaks down, Connie embarks on a narrative of sexual fulfilment, leaving questions regarding morality that still pen

Authored by Izzy Maundrill This article is centred around a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of black teenagers in 1957 who stood up to Civil inequality. Minnijean Brown-Trickey is often mischaracterized when this story is told and so this dives deeper into her role and retrospective view on the powerful and dramatic event. WHO WERE THE LITTLE ROCK 9? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM? The Little Rock Nine took place in Arkansas following the Supreme Court’s ruling of Brown v. The