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UK-based photographer Thom Atkinson’s series Soldiers’ Inventories – an attempt to explore “the mythology surrounding Britain’s relationship with war.”

With the help of historians, reenactment specialists, collectors and private soldiers, the series (featuring soldiers’ kits laid out and documented in detail here) span 948 years from Hastings to Helmand Province.

Above: typical soldier’s kit from the Battle of Hastings (1066), Siege of Jerusalem (1244), Agincourt (1415), Bosworth (1485), Malplaquet (1709), Arnhem (1944), The Falklands (1982), Helmand (2014).

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amran Hossain female garment workers face violent repurcussions

A garment worker in Badda, Bangladesh last Friday

Kate, of Clean Clothes Campaign Ireland,  writes:

“I am working in a fairly focused area of labour rights which looks into the garment industry specifically. While I research and write reports on the terrible repercussions of this sector for those involved in making our clothes this morning I was confronted with this image (above) from the streets of Badda in Bangladesh – we all know things are bad for workers over there but there is something still – (even for me who’s seen some terrible stuff) – really shocking about seeing a women being beaten by 4 men with sticks in broad daylight with bystanders watching – all as a result for demanding her wages due.
Yes, I am a campaigner but in this case there is no campaign, there so little I can do to help these women and their colleagues. My only tool is to make as many people as possible aware of the reality for people making our clothes – I hope you might be willing to let your readers see the true cost of cheap fashion and perhaps something like this will make everyone think a little bit longer before buying into the bargain.”

Clean Clothes Campaign Ireland

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Academics for Palestine, a list of Irish academics calling for a boycott of Israel has today passed 170 signatories.

Full list of signatories here.

AFP are calling on Irish universities and colleges to stop cooperating with Israeli companies in the development of high-tech weaponry.

Academics For Palestine (AFP)

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Film-making tykes.

In one take.

Laura Gaynor writes:

“A one take music video by Young Irish Filmmakers. They’ve been doing filmmaking camps all summer with kids in Kilkenny. It’s a bit like that big long shot in Goodfellas, except it’s in Kilkenny and it doesn’t have DeNiro….

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Honolulu, Hawaii earlier.

They said it couldn’t be done.

Niamh writes:

“Team Boatylicious have finished the Great Pacific Race, arriving in Hawaii at 2.14pm local time after 50 days at sea. Emily Blagden (GB), Amanda Challans (GB), Ingrid Kvale (USA) and Aoife Ní Mhaoileoin (IRE) are the first all-female four ever to complete the 2,400 mile crossing from Monterey to Honolulu. Ní Mhaoileoin [from Castleknock, Co Dublin is also the first Irish woman ever to complete the course….”

Previously: Meet Team Boatylicious

Team Boatylicious (Facebook)

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