Paul and Paulette Take A Bath: Historically Insensitive or Innovative Genre Subversion?
Clara Swan reviews Paul and Paulette Take A Bath (2024), recently shown at Hyde Park Picture House, and evaluates director...
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Lee Miller: The Second World War Through Her Eyes
From model to war correspondent and photographer, Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller’s contribution to the reporting and documenting of the Second World...
Groffice Gems Reveal the Historic Lifestyle of Leeds Students
Having been appointed as one of the sub-editors this year for the Gryphon, not much crossed my mind when the...
On this week: 23 October – from the archives
'On this week' is a new weekly column by our news editor Josh Elgin which offers a window into the...
The Forgotten Mercury 13
The launch of NASA’s Artemis programme took place on the 14th of November 2022. Artemis I (an unmanned test flight),...
A Long History of activism, poetry, and checking his watch…: Linton Kwesi Johnson in Conversation with Gary Younge at Opera North’s Howard Assembly Room
I was delighted to be able to go and see Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ), London's renowned Jamaican poet, activist, and...
Exploring queer history through The Gryphon archive
Archives aren’t all dusty books and crumbling manuscripts -research into past issues of the Gryphon(including in its former life as...
Leeds Black History
It’s Black History Month in the UK, and this year The Gryphon is celebrating Black Liberation within its print issue....
Women in the Arts Over Time
The tagline of this year’s International Women’s Day was #choosetochallenge. The tag encourages people to tackle gender-based inequality on a...
Latest season of The Crown exposes double standards from MPs
There appears to be something slightly insidious in how Oliver Dowden, Culture Secretary, has singled out the recent series of The...