Erin Pizzey | Frederick
November of 2021 marks fifty years since the establishment of the first domestic violence shelter in the world in Chiswick by Erin Pizzey. Whilst the concern of private domestic abuse had not been an...
Rogue’s Gallery Entries
Entries to the Rogue’s Gallery essay competition
Voltairine De Cleyre | John Hawthorne
Voltairine De Cleyre is perhaps less a rogue and more an exquisite rebel, as she is termed in a collection of her essays (See Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine De Cleyre – Anarchist,...
Lady Hester Stanhope | Joshua Patchett
What story more encapsulates our popular imagination of a certain era of British history than that of the intrepid and well-bred explorer? Of those daring few born of luxurious but often dull circumstances who...
Emperor Puyi | Christopher Winter
We often hear the fairy-tale story of pauper to millionaire, commoner to king, servant girl to princess. It is an extremely popular narrative which has persisted in literature and media through the ages. These...
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg | Harry Page
The story reads like something out of an unrealistic Paradox game playthrough. A German Officer in the Russian Army chases after left-wing rebels in a Civil War, becomes a steppe horse warlord and reveals...
Ernst von Salomon | Jack Lindsay
By using my choice of Rogue, Ernst von Salomon, I shall attempt to present why the post-war period is unique and far more interesting than public education allows. During Adolf Hitler’s ascendancy to Power,...
Lady Hester Stanhope | Heidi Schlegel
In 1812, Lady Hester Stanhope rode from Damascus to Palmyra with a caravan of 22 camels. She was dressed as a Bedouin, armed to the teeth, and rode with a small guard. The first...
Allison ‘Digby’ Tatham-Warter | Rupert Augustus
To those already initiated in World War Two history, Operation Market Garden is a name that may conjure some combination of daring, overambition, and maybe a touch of recklessness. This feeling will likely only...
Jack and Jackie, the Baboons | Nathan Wilson
Confession, in my original article version of this, I was stuck between doing Mel Gibson, Dennis Rodman, Aki and Pawpaw and Charlie Sheen. That was until I remembered these bad boys, also existed and...
The Venerable Bede | Sam Rubinstein
There are few things which the Venerable Bede would have hated more than being called a ‘rogue’ and featuring in the pages of a political magazine. Bede detested ‘rogues’. He saw himself as the...
