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Turbulent Spinsters: Women’s Fight for the Vote in Hastings and St LeonardsBy Ann Kramer Review by Ben Bruges Most of social historian Ann Kramer’s meticulous research comes from the Hastings Observer’s records, and one of the interests in the book…
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The Conservation Revolution: radical ideas for saving nature beyond the AnthropoceneBy Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher Verso, RRP £ Bookbuster price £ Review by Tim Barton We face a global crisis of threatened systems failure, of which greenhouse gas emissions…
Animal Encounter Stories – The 2nd Runners Up
Earlier in the year, local arts company Dens & Signals teamed up with HIP to launch an Animal Encounter Story Competition. We asked readers to tell us about their real-life moments of connection with wild animals. We had a great…
HIP CLASSICS: The Greek Gods
What If These Deities Were Alive Today? Of course I know they don’t exist, but they give us a rich language in which to describe experience. In this issue: Apollo – Back to Black or Sunny Afternoon? Apollo set a…
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The Near Horizon Collapse, TechUtopia, or Small Is Beautiful – Part One: HubrisBy Holly Jean Buck Review by Tim Barton In After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration (Verso, £), Holly Jean Buck quotes SF author Kim Stanley Robinson, who…
Animal Encounter Stories – The 1st Runners Up
Earlier in the year, local arts company Dens & Signals teamed up with HIP to launch an Animal Encounter Story Competition. We asked readers to tell us about their real-life moments of connection with wild animals. We had a great…
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When Protest Becomes Crime:Politics and Law in Liberal Democracies By Carolijn TerwindtPublished by Pluto Books, paperback £ Review by Tim Barton In liberal democracies there tends to be an assumption, taught as fact at an early age, that a ‘separation…
Animal Encounter Stories – The Winners!
Earlier in the year, local arts company Dens & Signals teamed up with HIP to launch an Animal Encounter Story Competition. We asked readers to tell us about their real-life moments of connection with wild animals. We had a great…
How To Keep Writing In Lockdown
NICCI TALBOT, journalist and copywriter, offers HIP readers and writers some practical tips on how to stay creative and productive during this Covid-19 crisis. Follow her blog via the website below. Get up early and journalAutomatic writing (waffle) first thing…
HIP LOCAL ESSAY
Some Thoughts on Quarantine by the Sea By Chris Smith The sea is almost completely still this afternoon, coloured an undefinable shade of grey as if to reflect the slowly creeping feelings of uncertainty that have pervaded my consciousness these…