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The wicked? stepmother

Cinderella is opening in a new ballet production at the Royal Opera House and Mothering Sunday is...

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Decadent Art

A Persian epic depicted in The Yellow Book which Aubrey Beardsley was art editor for, Iranian...

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Debt

Debt is central to the modern economy and it has long been so. The idea of debt has long been...

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New Thinking: British Sign Language

Body language is being studied as a way of working out new ways of learning Sign Language and if...

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Making Your Voice Heard

Iranian women using song to protest and whose voices do we pay attention to ? On International...

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Anarchism and David Graeber

Bullshit jobs, Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value, Debt: The First 5000 Years: the titles...

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Dom Sylvester Houédard

The monk and poet Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924-92) used his Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter to...

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Sesame Street and Soviet culture

Muppets in Moscow is Natasha Lance Rogoff's account of launching a Russian version of the...

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Tin cans, cutlery and sewing

How sewing machines wrecked sewing. Why people mistrusted tin cans. What the invention of...

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Ghosts of Caribbean History

Hungry Ghosts is the new novel set in colonial Trinidad by Kevin Jared Hosein. Colin Grant has...

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Climate change and empire building

Haggling with Indian customs officials and presenting a mighty emperor with the distinctly...

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Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur

A new exhibition at the Ashmolean looks at the digs conducted by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos in...

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Idrissa Ouédraogo

Burkinabé filmmaker Idrissa Ouédraogo (21 January 1954 – 18 February 2018) was awarded the Grand...

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Stories of Love

Proust as an agony uncle, Romeo and Juliet rewritten as 21st century Welsh teenagers in a new...

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Donkeys

From Orwell and Shakespeare back to Greek myth, Aesop, and early Christianity: Matthew Sweet and...

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The Heir of Redclyffe

Soldiers fighting in the Crimean War lapped up this story and it also influenced the young...

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Lady Macbeth

Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuler and New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday and...

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Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills

Urbanisation, migration and ‘folk language’ are explored in the 1984 novel by Latife Tekin. The...

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Inner city life in Chicago's Bronzeville and the experiences of ordinary people inspired the...

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The mermaid-like Mélusine

The legend of Mélusine emerges in French literature of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth...

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