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  • On Claudia Jones…
    • P.S. The Windrush Generation – 2018 post
    • P.S. “Not used in Bulletin. Put in file.” (1956) – 2017 post
    • Coming of Age in the 1950s All Over Again – 2016 post
    • “Finding Claudia Jones” – 2015 post
    • “A Pride in Being West Indian”: Claudia Jones and The West Indian Gazette – 2012 paper
    • “A Strange and Terrible Sight in Our Country” – 2006 essay
    • An Editorial: Colour-Bar Act Emboldens Fascists (July 1962)
    • Claudia Jones’ Letter from Ellis Island, 1950
  • On Margery Kempe…
    • “This Creature”: 40 Years of Margery Kempe – 2015 post
    • Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe – 1983 book
    • Margery Kempe Society (Laura Williams & Laura Varnam)
  • About Clarissa Atkinson

#MoiAussi

Long ago, during an earlier life as a medievalist, I spent some time studying the trials of Joan of Arc. Continue reading →

Nasty Women Vote

P.S. We’re All Nasty Now

I posted “Generations“ in May 2015, when Bernie Sanders was a gleam in the eye of the Left, Jeb Bush Continue reading →

Margaret Atkinson on Louise Fishman

Originally posted on Painters On Paintings:
Louise Fishman, Me and Joe, 1981, Oil on linen, 19 x 32 inches In my memory…

The author, in her varsity uniform, circa 1950

Crossing the Center Line

Back around the middle of the 20th century, when I played high school basketball, we were not allowed to cross Continue reading →

“Madly for Adlai”

I cast my first vote for Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and worked in his campaign, knocking on doors, stuffing envelopes, Continue reading →

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