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Oct 30, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Andy Beckett |Diane Abbott |Tom Baldwin |Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
By 2014, Keir Starmer was tired of running up against the ‘limits of legal justice’. He had recently stepped down as director of public prosecutions when his local MP, Frank Dobson, announced his retirement. Starmer entered the race to replace him as the member for Holborn and St Pancras. He was a political unknown in a crowded field, facing past and present leaders of Camden Council as well as a popular local doctor.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
In April 1974, shortly after Labour had returned to power in a minority government under Harold Wilson, the Liberal Party’s Treasury spokesman claimed that Britain was “approaching that situation of ‘explosive inflation’ which has been experienced in so many South American countries”, posing “a danger to our society, to our politics, to our Parliamentary Institutions, to our very democracy”.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | John Lanchester |Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |Tom Crewe |James Butler
John Lanchester, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Tom Crewe and James Butler Your browser does not support the audio element. John Lanchester, Tom Crewe and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite join James Butler to dissect Keir Starmer's victory and the historic collapse of the Conservative Party.
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May 29, 2024 | 
portside.org | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Raphael Samuel adopted his notetaking method from Beatrice and Sidney Webb, progenitors of Fabian socialism, who developed it in the late 19th century:Each thought or reference to a source was written or pasted onto a single side of a loose sheet of paper. It might be the source itself – an advertisement, a jam-jar label or an extract from a Xerox – it mattered only that it was attributed and subheaded under a theme. Then the notes were filed in groups.
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May 15, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Raphael Samuel |Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Raphael Samuel adopted his notetaking method from Beatrice and Sidney Webb, progenitors of Fabian socialism, who developed it in the late 19th century:Each thought or reference to a source was written or pasted onto a single side of a loose sheet of paper. It might be the source itself – an advertisement, a jam-jar label or an extract from a Xerox – it mattered only that it was attributed and subheaded under a theme. Then the notes were filed in groups.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |Natalie Thomlinson |Jörg Arnold
The miners’ strike of 1984–5 must be the most well-worked seam in British labour history. Is there anything new to say? Two books by young scholars seek to answer this question partly by approaching the strike from unexpected angles. Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson focus on women (in large measure miners’ wives) and the strike. This is not, in itself, a new topic, but they change the perspective partly by looking back a long way before 1984.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |Thomas Jones
Your browser does not support the audio element. Gerontologist, pacifist, novelist, medical doctor and mollusc expert – Alex Comfort was far more than just the author of the staggeringly popular Joy of Sex. In her review of a new biography, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite navigates the convictions and contradictions of this bewilderingly polymathic thinker.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Eric Laursen |Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Alex Comfort was exhausting. After meeting him, the pioneering sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson swapped notes. ‘If we could learn to produce on a 24-hour level the way he does, I think we’d probably have it made,’ Johnson said. ‘Five or six hours is all I can stand,’ Masters replied. ‘I end up out of breath while he’s talking.’ One woman who met him at Sandstone, a kind of commune for swingers in California, said he was ‘very full of himself’.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
eventbrite.com | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |Natalie Thomlinson
Please arrive between 12 and 12:15; coffee will be served. At 12:15 we will be screening the short film 'Not Just Tea and Sandwiches' (1984), followed by a Q&A with two of the filmmakers, Roger Shannon and Jonnie Turpie.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
lrb.co.uk | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |Tom Crewe |Malin Hay
Your browser does not support the audio element. In the 1970s and ’80s, thousands of haemophiliacs in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through blood products known to be contaminated. In a recent piece, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithewaite outlines the magnitude of the scandal, exacerbated by carelessness, corporate greed and, in one instance, deliberate human experimentation. She joins Malin to discuss the findings and what they mean for survivors.
