The Government Is Failing Hillsborough Families Again

Created
Tue, 15/04/2025 - 10:47
Updated
Tue, 15/04/2025 - 23:35

Anniversaries of the Hillsborough tragedy call to mind historian Lucy Noakes’ description of grief as a ‘disruptive emotion’ with the ability to ‘transform our sense of self’. Writing about the home front during the world wars, Noakes explains how authorities, anxious about domestic unrest, sought to discourage this disruptive emotion, instead promoting stoic self-control as […]