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Indonesia.
8 March 1991: What feminism means to me
By The Old Statesman - 29 April 13:44

Diana Quick, Margi Clarke, Vanessa Redgrave and others.

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Activists from the NO campaign.
Chile’s slow thaw: Benny Pollack on the "NO" campaign
By Benny Pollack - 22 April 16:05

30 September 1988.

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First meeting of UNO in New York, 1946.
19 April 1952: Leonard Woolf asks, is the UN still-born?
By Leonard Woolf - 19 April 15:59

From our correspondence.

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Remembering Greenham Common
By Kate Hudson - 18 April 12:15

Kate Hudson, General Secretary of CND, recalls her first trip to Greenham Common.

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Absolutely Fabulous
Edmund Wilson's Words of Ill-Omen: "Superb" and "Fabulous"
By Edmund Wilson - 18 April 11:47

The American man of letters teaches you how to use words.

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The London Underground.
“The twots”: Letter from a would-be New Statesman Editor
By Anthony Barnett - 16 April 13:40

When Anthony Barnett was turned down for the editorship of the New Statesman in 1986, he wrote to his supporters - who included John Berger, Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Francis Wheen - to explain why.

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The changing face of the New Statesman, 1913-2013
By Helen Lewis - 12 April 9:46

Between the covers.

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The 7th Earl of Rosebery.
"No more than an imposing folly": James Fenton at Mentmore
By James Fenton - 11 April 17:53

20 May 1977.

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Big books on a bilboard in Russia.
Edmund Wilson's Words of Ill-Omen: Massive
By Edmund Wilson - 11 April 13:08

The American man of letters gives guidance to writers and journalists on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Spring Break
11 April 1959: An undergraduate asks "is chastity outmoded?"
By The Old Statesman - 11 April 11:54

From our correspondence.

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Martin Luther King Jr using the telephone in a hotel.
12 April 1968: “The country has lost not just Dr King but the King”
By Alan Brien - 04 April 11:34

Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated forty-five years ago today. Here, Alan Brien reports from a grief-stricken New York.

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Prince Charles in Oman.
100 good reasons to be a republican
By The Old Statesman - 04 April 10:43

Put not your trust in Princes - Psalm 146.

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The entrance to the Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville.
The Good Samaritans
By J P W Mallalieu - 03 April 13:21

J P W Mallalieu at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1956 argues foreigners have every right to use the NHS: after all, they built it.

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Spy for a Day.
The secret life of Clifford Sharp
By Adrian Smith - 03 April 8:42

Meet the first editor of the New Statesman.

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The last known photograph of Allende alive, La Moneda Palace, 1 April 1973
Why Allende had to die
By Gabriel García Márquez - 03 April 8:06

Sedition in Santiago.

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William Beveridge in 1943
Kingsley Martin's obituary for William Beveridge (1879-1963)
By Kingsley Martin - 02 April 15:15

From the archive.

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Billy Graham
Edmund Wilson's Words of Ill-Omen: Religionist
By Edmund Wilson - 02 April 11:19

The American man of letters gives guidance to writers and journalists on both sides of the Atlantic.

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A portrait of the screenwriter Jimmy McGovern.
27 March 1987: Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern on the subversiveness of soap
By The Old Statesman - 26 March 18:39

From our correspondence.

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Painting of Lord Byron.
Edmund Wilson's Words of Ill-Omen: Womanizer
By Edmund Wilson - 25 March 11:28

The American man of letters on linguistic complacency and corruption either side of the Atlantic.

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Portrait of Chinua Achebe and Nelson Mandela.
The Song of Ourselves
By Chinua Achebe - 22 March 17:16

An essay by Chinua Achebe first published in 1990 on creativity, Conrad and why he was not the "grandfather of African literature".

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Portrait of Barbara Castle.
22 March 1958: Barbara Castle, Father Hooper and justice in South Africa
By The Old Statesman - 22 March 14:16

From our correspondence.

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A window at Holloway Prison, shattered by suffragettes. Photo: Getty
"A microcosm of women’s democracy": the co-operative movement and women's rights
By Surabhi Khanna - 15 March 16:59

Dispatches from 1913.

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The restless spirit of Arthur Koestler
By New Statesman - 14 March 17:01

Last train to nowhere.

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A statue of Gandhi in Union Square, New York.
13 March 1937: British activist Agatha Harrison on progress in India
By The Old Statesman - 13 March 11:06

From our correspondence.

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F Scott Fitzgerald with Zelda and his daughter Frances.
Fitzgerald, Woolf and J G Ballard: five classic book reviews from the NS archive
By The Old Statesman - 12 March 14:13

Reviews by Amis, Pritchett, Royde-Smith and Naipul.

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Cecil Day-Lewis reading a letter with his family.
Do Labour really want peace? A letter from Cecil Day-Lewis: 7 March 1936
By The Old Statesman - 07 March 12:43

From our correspondence.

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A protester holding an anti-fascist placard in Cambridge.
5 March 1938: Evelyn Waugh on the word "Fascist"
By The Old Statesman - 04 March 18:03

From our correspondence.

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Paris in the rain.
The day I was drugged and raped
By Andrea Dworkin - 04 March 12:12

Andrea Dworkin's harrowing account from 2000.

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An alien from the Mars Attacks movies.
When the Martians landed
By Luke Maxted - 28 February 18:42

From the archives: Craig Raine and the birth of Martian poetry.

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Pope Paul VI
Christopher Hitchens on the death of Pope Paul VI
By Christopher Hitchens - 28 February 18:26

"To judge by the tide of uncritical sentimentality which swept over the British press ... you might have thought that the Reformation had never taken place".

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