Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

With the ownership of water again an issue for concerned debate, there is much to be learned from the pioneers of public provision

A pocket park in Newham, close to a polluted major road, commemorates a famous conversation between Mahatma Gandhi and Charles Chaplin

In an early issue of The Rag, there was a warning: “Gentle Thursday Is Coming.” Only it wasn’t so much a warning as it was an invitation, first appearing in a one-inch section of the paper and then…

Not many traces of it remain, but London E17 was a force to be reckoned with in the early days of silent movies

Of all the eidolons that Virginia Woolf conjured up off the page and into the world, perhaps her most insistent is that of Shakespeare’s sister. How alive she is, this Judith Shakespeare, who in re…