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The Women Who Kept America Drinking During Prohibition
During Prohibition, most bootleggers were women. Mothers, homesteaders and entrepreneurs brewed, smuggled and sold alcohol across America. From Birdie Brown’s Montana parlour to Cleo Lythgoe’s global operation, this is the forgotten backbone of the liquor trade.


Tempest Anderson: the Yorkshire Doctor Who Chased Volcanoes
A Victorian doctor from York who chased erupting volcanoes around the world. Tempest Anderson photographed Mont Pelée, survived pyroclastic flows, and helped change how science understood volcanic disasters.


Virginia Tonelli and the Weight of Refusal at the Risiera di San Sabba
After the 8th of September 1943, Italian partisan Virginia Tonelli was captured in Trieste, interrogated at the Risiera di San Sabba, and burned alive for refusing to betray others. She was later awarded Italy’s Gold Medal of Military Valour.
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