Dr Susi ArnottMay 8, 2025
Would love to see this on stage tonight #VEDayincontext #Unknownsoldier #dance #blackhistory
https://happeningnext.com/event/the-unknown-soldier-eid1ef02pxtfsar
Dr Susi ArnottMay 8, 2025
Good time to re-watch #Spiritof45 #KenLoach #VEDayincontext
https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-the-spirit-of-45-2013-online
Watch The Spirit of '45 - BFI Player

Ken Loach's stirring polemical history explores the immense forces that built Britain's Welfare State from the rubble of the Second World War.

BFI Player
Dr Susi ArnottMay 8, 2025
"...there would be something deeply perverse about celebrating the defeat of the extreme right on the battlefield while ignoring the fact that Europe is voting for its ideological descendants at the ballot box" #VEDayincontext #GaryYounge #journalism
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/08/ve-day-second-world-war-soldiers-india-africa-caribbean-colonial?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Millions of the black and brown people who fought for Europe’s freedom didn’t get a VE Day

The heroism of soldiers from India, Africa and the Caribbean is too often airbrushed, as is the struggle of those who resisted colonial powers, says writer and sociology professor Gary Younge

The Guardian