Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends a novel approach to presenting the case and figures of shameful levels of UK child poverty
STATING THE OBVIOUS: The Food Foundation protest in Westminster, last September, with their reimagining of a Tory political poster aiming of getting politicians to commit to extending access to Free School Meals, as 900,000 children living in poverty are not eligible for the scheme
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RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
Seven Children — inequality and Britain's next generation
by Danny Dorling
Hurst £14.99
THIS book takes a novel approach to examining how one in three children live in poverty in the sixth-richest country in the world. That country is the UK.
Building on his previous book, Shattered Nation, Dorling drills down to see how seven strata of British children are affected by the poverty and inequality so rampant here.
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