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Everyone knows the Elvis story, but what’s less known is the story of the Black women singers and musicians who forged the way.
Cities are defined as much by their buildings as what people do in between them. Designing them comes with great responsibility.
When it comes to writing historical fiction, one author finds that it’s the very human details that resonate with the reader.
The sounds and attitude of punk were all about not conforming to the norm and rebelling against all that came before it.
From Merlin to the country’s red dragon, there are a lot of legends and magic to promote to international tourists.
Since the second world war, changing ideas about how children should behave have made us fear independent and competent children.
Why did the chicken cross the globe? A new study has revealed how chickens were domesticated.
To stick or twist? Love Island is a perfect illustration of the investment model of relationships.
The cinematic epic hinges on a very specific, and contentious, interpretation of early Islamic history.
Military service is compulsory in South Korea and many deem it unfair that the band’s members have been allowed to put it off.
TikTok is increasingly the social media of choice for older people who enthusiastically reject socially constructed notions of old age.
The company has been suspected of alluding to same-sex couples in the past but Lightyear’s kiss could be the first overt instance of LGBTQ+ representation.
The National Gallery’s reliance on outdated, male-dominated art history is a failure of its duty as a steward of the British public’s art collection
What started out as an instinctive and private response to trauma has become a collective process of grieving and commemoration.
Books that will bring the beauty of Derbyshire’s rolling hills alive.
The biggest crime of the film was exaggerating the size of dinosaurs.
Phallic graffiti was more than just funny in Roman Britain.
Translations by Brian Friel is an eternally relevant examination of the significance of the Irish language, the power of storytelling and the importance of history.
The Portuguese artist, who has died at the age of 87, had a strong feminist streak in her work that blazed a trail for women’s rights.
Anne Lister’s various exchanges were coded in her diary with a mixture of words and symbols.
Giving gifts make people feel closer to the Queen and the royal family.
The legacy of the Holocaust stretches beyond a handful of death camps and ghettos. Stumbling Stones hope to help people remember that
Russian players are competing at the French Open, is this the right move?
The monarch is the head of the Church of England but as Britain has become more diverse so has the approach to religion in jubilees.