• Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 Event Held on University Park Campus

    UoN and NTU collaborated to host an event to honour Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), the evening ended with attendees being invited to reflect on the atrocities of the Holocaust through a performance from Viva Voce choir and a beautifully heartfelt vigil at the top of Portland steps. Impact’s Lottie...
  • ‘Counting Dead Women’: Remembering The Victims Of Gender-Based Violence

    On Saturday 11th March a memorial was held on the steps of Nottingham’s Council House in memory of those who have died as the result of gender-based violence. Impact’s India reports on this event....
  • Travelling To Marches During COVID-19

    Demonstrations across the UK have been sparked in protest of the unlawful murder of the African American man, George Floyd, while in police custody. For the fourth weekend running, Black Lives Matter marches are continuing globally and nationally, in London, Nottingham, Manchester and Cardiff. “This disproportionate figure exemplifies the...
  • A Memorial to Errol Graham

    Ellie Stainforth-Mallison explores the governmental footfalls that led to the tragic death of Errol Graham last June, before paying tribute to the stunning memorial organised this week in his honour. ...
  • “Paying Respects”: the Ethics of Grief Tourism

    Controversy arose in 2017 when a coach of tourists stopped to take selfies in front of Grenfell Tower’s skeleton, provoking local residents to urge people not take photos out of respect for victims and grieving families. The visitation of such places associated with death and tragedy has recently been...
  • Holocaust: A history that should never be forgotten

    As I left my home on the freezing 4th of November morning in 2015, weary-eyed and barely awake, I felt a knot in the pit of my stomach for what the day ahead would hold. I was making the mammoth journey to Krakow, Poland and back in just one...