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Is Field Maneuvers the most fun time ever? Yes probably

Collective joy — Huck’s art director Samuel White went to the 2026 edition, braving a wet start and interviewing FLINTA* collective and arm wrestling legends Uhaul Dyke Rescue in the process.

  • Music
  • Samuel White

Jesse Glazzard’s messy portrait of queer friends, lovers and chosen family

The Sound of Dirt and Beauty — The photographer’s debut monograph explores tender, unpolished moments shaped by the people who he surrounds himself with, while offering a window into the UK’s working-class LGBTQ+ community.

  • Culture
  • Sunny Sunday

Behind the curtain at Alternative Miss World 1981

Olympia glamour — Running a subversive take on the traditional beauty pageant, the Andrew Logan organised event prioritised underground creativity and invention. Photographer David Corio went behind the scenes at its biggest edition. 

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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New exhibition highlights British radical living over 200 years

Earthly Paradise — Taking place at the William Morris Gallery, it explores the homes and lives of artists, writers, musicians and more, as well as the conditions that allowed them to thrive.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

Count Binface: “Nigel, who said he didn’t want to be humiliated, maybe has been”

“I’m just getting started” — The novelty political candidate, created by Jonathan David Harvey, came second in the Clacton by-election after winning 9,455 votes and more than a quarter of the votes.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop
Jousting Tournament at Arundel Castle - Magda Campagne

Chivalry isn’t dead: Inside the world of modern jousting

The Obsessives — The extreme sport, which sees competitors charge full speed on a horse towards an opponent while armed with a lance, stretches back centuries. Ginnia Cheng takes a trip to Arundel, the ‘Wimbledon of Jousting’, to find out why people travel across the world in search of crashing hits.

  • Sport
  • Ginnia Cheng

In the pit at one of the UK’s last stock car & banger speedways

Stock Car Racing Isn’t Dead — Photographer Liam McCarthy spent time in and around the Arlington Raceway’s circuit, capturing the diehard community that keeps the sport alive.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
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Tish Murtha © Ella Murtha

Tish Murtha’s searing documentation of broken Britain

Vandalism on a Grand Scale — Capturing youth unemployment and poverty in north-east England during the ’80s, the photographer never lived to see her work published. A new photobook by British Culture Archive brings her eye-opening work to light.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

‘Baking Street’: Activists rename Tube stations in heatwave protest

‘Heatwave, sponsored by Shell’ — The protest comes as the UK recorded the hottest day in June ever recorded at 36.7C.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop

On the frontlines of Britain’s ’80s protest movements

Protest and Equality — Against a backdrop of Thatcherism, hospital closures and global conflict, photographer Sarah Saunders was a documentarian of the long decade’s effects on society, as well as the communities actively resisting it.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen
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