MSSU ENG272 - Fall 2025

While gassing during war may have seemed like a new strategy, the effects it had on both the soliders using and experiecing it and those making the chemicals where detrimental. The Battle of Somme was one battle of WWI that used many gasses as weaponary during its fight. This photo depicts just how powerful such gasses were, but it can't represent the psychological effects it has on those in… more

The Huskar Colliery incident was a tragic and deadly event that occurred at a mining location where young children worked. The incident caused 26 children to lose their life, and this image depicts the memorial at Huskar Colliery that is meant to honor the children who should've never been in that mine in the first place. It is extremely unfortunate that those children had to lose their lives… more

Working conditions in factories became a common concern during the Victorian Era. Birmingham was a booming industrial city during the time, and held many factories and workshops where women and children were working long hours in horrible conditions. This image only touches just how bad it was for individuals spending their days and nights without any breaks in an unhealthy enviroment.… more

This image depics the conditions of the enslaved Africans that were being transported to Bristol, England. This image is a mark in history for what would later spark the abolitionist movement, and encourage the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, ending the slave trade in England. This image only shows to an extent why it was only right for enslaved Africans to earn human rights, as they… more

The first acts of the French Revolution took place in Versailles, France. This image is meant to represent those first acts, as they are what ignited debate over the definition of human rights. From this, also taking place in Versailles, France, came The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789, legislatively ending the debate and defining human rights. This image displays… more