In 1888, women matchworkers in London took strike action, forcing their employers to accede to their terms and forming the largest female union in the country.
Robert Hughes, the Australian art critic, died on 6 August. We reprint this review (from 1988) by Belinda Weaver of his important history of Australia, The Fatal Shore, as a tribute.
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