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Sep 26, 2024 | 
publicinterestnews.org.uk | Rhiannon Davies |Greater Govanhill
The Ferret and Greater Govanhill’s Community Newsroom showed how community perspectives can shape meaningful storytelling. This article is part of the People-Powered Storytelling collaborative series. “Everybody has a story,” starts the tagline above the shop front window of our tiny community newsroom in Glasgow’s Govanhill.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
historyextra.com | Rhiannon Davies
Susan Higges was one such highwaywoman. Living in Buckinghamshire, her career of crime stretched for 20 years. She dressed as a man to stalk the highways and pilfer from travellers, and also drummed up additional funds by extorting men whom she caught sleeping with her unmarried female servants. But her exploits came to a bloody end when she murdered a woman who knew her identity.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
greatergovanhill.com | Greater Govanhill |Rhiannon Davies
By Rhiannon J DaviesFragmented images, reflections, glimpses into another world. Multiple exposures layer dream-like portraits with colourful ethereal backdrops. Ghostly photograms of delicate flowers frame powerful black and white portraits. Ruya is a girl’s name, meaning vision, sight or dream in Arabic.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
bandt.com.au | Rhiannon Davies
Directed by Revolver's Richard Bullock, the campaign features the stars of the Super Rugby Pacific, and pays tribute to the binding force between the nations involved, the Pacific Ocean itself. The work was shot in both Australia and New Zealand. All the action and stunts are performed by the players themselves. Their ability to pass, tackle and even run underwater is a testament to their talent and ability on land.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
historyextra.com | Rhiannon Davies
After her arrest, Noor was imprisoned for almost a year in increasingly squalid conditions, until she was sent to Dachau concentration camp in September 1944 and executed. Was Noor Inayat Khan a princess? Khan was born on 1 January 1914 in Moscow, and was descended from Indian royalty. Her father – a Sufi teacher called Hazrat Inayat Khan – was related to Tipu Sultan, the famed 17th-century ruler of Mysore in southern India.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
historyextra.com | Rhiannon Davies
Read more | Life in the trenches during WWI: your essential guideIt was a bloodbath. Thompson recounted: “It was like pie meat for the Germans, near everyone was getting [trapped] in the barbed wire... They were just cutting us like cutting hay. The fire was rapid, continuous, machine-gun fire and shrapnel bursting. You wonder who’s going to be shot next – and I was shot next.”Although Thompson managed to crawl back into the trench and reach safety, many of his companions weren’t so lucky.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
historyextra.com | Rhiannon Davies
At the beginning, their relationship seemed to have been ripped from the pages of a romance novel. English aristocrat, Richard John Bingham, met Veronica Duncan at a golfing event in early 1963, and they were wed before the year was out and inherited the titles of Lord and Lady Lucan. He was a dashing and suave gentleman who had been considered for the role of James Bond; she was a glamorous beauty and a former model. But through the façade of their high-end lifestyle, cracks soon appeared.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
scottishbeacon.com | Rhiannon Davies |Greater Govanhill |Claire Jessiman |Hans J Marter
Families gathered in George Square for a protest yesterday. Schools across Glasgow were closed due to a staff strike, so a group of parents from the Southside of Glasgow put out a call to friends for a teddybear vigil in George Square. The Whatsapp group set up to organise it quickly grew from a handful to over 700 people. The event was inspired by others that have happened around the country.
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Oct 28, 2023 | 
change.org | Rhiannon Davies
We are the parents, (whose daughters lost their lives avoidably due to catastrophic failings in care at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SaTH)), who: · Lobbied former Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt, and the government for an investigation into SaTH's maternity services which resulted in the Ockenden Review, · Lobbied the police for a criminal investigation into the same which resulted in the ongoing Operation Lincoln, · Lobbied the government for additional funding for maternity...
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
historyextra.com | Rhiannon Davies
The trans-Atlantic slave trade expanded greatly in the 18th century, growing from a relatively small enterprise to a global business that saw millions of African people clapped in irons, forced to undergo the tortuous Middle Passage and then sold at market in the Americas. Speaking to Rhiannon Davies, Nicholas Radburn investigates the merchants across the globe who tried to expand their bottom lines by branching out into slave trading.
