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Being Blonde

What links “the British Marilyn” Diana Dors, the last women to be hanged in Britain Ruth Ellis,...

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The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023

Nicholas Cullinan from the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG) and Elvira Dyangani Ose from...

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Art, Kew, a symphony and nature

An accidental invention which revolutionised plant collecting has inspired an artwork from Mat...

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New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness

DH Lawrence described outcasts living by the Thames, Mina Loy made art from trash, calling her...

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Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life

I've been Thinking is the title of a memoir from philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel...

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Refuge and National Poetry Day

Loss and belonging are explored in an installation at the Barbican Centre in London from Sierra...

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Slavic culture and myth

Tales of adventure and magic connect the Slavic lands: East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus),...

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Hobbes and New Leviathans

"Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" is the way Thomas Hobbes described the life of man in...

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Childbirth and parenthood: Contains Strong Language Festival

From the forceps inventor Peter Chamberlen to letters written by Queen Victoria about giving...

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Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski

Rejected by her usual publisher, Farewell Leicester Square is a novel by Betty Miller, written in...

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Notebooks and new technology

Novelist Jonathan Coe joins book historians Roland Allen, Prof Lesley Smith and Dr Gill...

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Why go into space?

From Cold War triumphalism to wanting to secure the future of humanity, people have given many...

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Black Atlantic

In 1816, Richard Fitzwilliam donated money, literature and art to the University of Cambridge,...

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The Red Shoes

The dancer Moira Shearer starred in the 1948 film written, directed, and produced by Michael...

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Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco

New narrative was a way of mixing philosophical and literary theory with writing about the body...

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Wolfson Prize 2023

Six historians have been shortlisted for the 2023 history writing prize which has been awarded...

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Writing and Place: The Cairngorms

The Cairngorms National Park has inspired writing by Merryn Glover, whose books include The...

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Writing and Place: Cornwall

The coastline of Cornwall and its communities are the subject of a non fiction book called The...

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The Black Country past and present

In The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens portrayed The Black Country as a polluted hellscape...

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Depicting AIDS in Drama

Russell T. Davies is joined by his friend and author of Love from the Pink Palace, Jill Nalder to...

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