'Comfort Women' - symposium highlights human rights violation

'Comfort Women' - symposium highlights human rights violation

PhD student Sachi Tsukamoto, from The University of Nottingham, has organised a symposium on 'comfort women' -- the women and girls forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. She hopes it will highlight the issue of human rights violations against women.

'Comfort Women' - Japanese student explains why she studies the issue

PhD Student Sachi Tsukamoto, from The University of Nottingham, explains why she decided to learn more about the plight of 'Comfort Women' -- the women and girls forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War.

Herbert Hill - US civil rights campaigner and 'FBI informer'

Research by an American historian at The University of Nottingham could rewrite the history books on the US civil rights movement during the 1960s after revealing that a key racial equality official was also an FBI informer. Herbert Hill was the highly respected national labor secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for more than two decades. The shocking revelation came to light during Dr Christopher Phelps' analysis of Freedom of Information Act releases now publically available on the FBI website.

Writing the Writer - The Biographer's Story

Emeritus Professor John Worthen is interviewed by Dr Andrew Harrison, Director of the University of Nottingham's D H Lawrence Research, about his work as a biographer of D H Lawrence.

The Search for D H Lawrence

Emeritus Professor John Worthen in conversation with Dr Andrew Harrison, Director of the University of Nottingham's D H Lawrence Research, discusses the question of Lawrence and biography in the context of the Lakeside exhibition 'The Many Lives of D H Lawrence'.