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The Stasi poetry circle, Nazi schools and German culture
How an East German creative writing class fought the cold war: was their poetry any good?

Fashion Stories: Boy with a Pearl Earring
Lauren Working explores the Cavalier look from Charles I to Harry Styles

Fashion Stories: Uniforms - an alternative history
Tom Smith links school blazers and clothes worn by East German soldiers to clubbing

Fashion Stories:Drama, Dressing Up and Droopy & Browns
Jade Halbert looks at the designs inspired by English history created by Angela Holmes

Fashion Stories: In a handbag
Shahidha Bari looks at what the contents of a handbag can tell us

Fashion Stories: Body Armour
Sophie Oliver looks at a Mina Loy corselet and the history of reshaping bodies

Blackmail & Shame
Mark Ravenhill talks about staging the play on which Hitchcock based his film

New Thinking: Women’s history
The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts

New Thinking: Women’s history
The Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism: Naomi Paxton hosts

Sisters
The Unthank sisters, Sally Alexander, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Lucy Holland and Shahidha Bari