Bridget Atkinson.
Portrait courtesy of English Heritage, image created with Canva.
Collecting shells was a common past time in Enlightenment Britain, when elite women were becoming increasingly interested in science.
Spring in Central Park, New York. April 2023.
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Haiku poems chart flowers appearing earlier and species retreating to the margins.
Wager’s Action off Cartagena, 28 May 1708 by Samuel Scott (1772), a painting showing the moment the San José was blown up.
National Maritime Museum
The boat was sunk while still laden with treasure including 11 million gold and silver coins, emeralds and other precious cargo.
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People in their 20s and 30s are more likely than any other age group to experiment with AI pornography.
Baron Cobham and family around the dinner table, 1567.
Master of the Countess of Warwick
During the Tudor period, religious beliefs shaped people’s attitudes towards food and food waste.
Cosy games exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
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Cosy, personal games, as I discovered, can change the lives of the people who make them and those who play them.
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Queer joy is a powerful emotion. It sustains the fight for recognition and equality for LGBTQ+ people, especially in the face of challenges like discrimination.
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Polling suggests young Republicans may be more enthusiastic about Trump, than young Democrats are about Biden.
Collage, 1953.
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The sculpture was an early pioneer of pop art and his approach to collage across mediums was revolutionary,
A protest museum tour of the British Museum organised by BP or not BP? in 2018.
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The British Museum is celebrating recovered items in its new exhibition, but it continues to refuse to return historically looted items in its own collection to countries of origin.
The Artdocfest president Vitaliy Manski (back left) and the jury (L-R): Polish historian and journalist Adam Michnik, Latvian theatre director Viesturs Kairišs and Russian actress Chulpan Khamatova.
ArtDocFest Riga
Artdocfest 2024 was a showcase for films that show the reality of the war in Ukraine, and the spread of Russian politics to neighbouring countries.
Britain’s first female F1 racing driver (and former Olympic skiier), Divina Galica.
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Only five female racing drivers have ever entered a world championship grand prix – of whom just two qualified and raced.
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Every wardrobe tells a story and reconnecting with the clothes you already own could reduce your need to buy more fast fashion. Here are three ways to fall back in love with your wardrobe.
Traditional Morris dancers performing in Stratford Upon Avon.
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This could see different festivals, folklore or traditional tales, Morris dancing and certain skills and crafts protected.
Raw Fury
In the game, power is found in a natural world that is not tampered with or controlled – just as in Jansson’s stories.
Best actress nominee Lily Gladstone gives a quiet, captivating performance in Killers of the Flower Moon and would be the first Native American to win a major Oscar.
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Expert academics lead you through the five big movies nominated for best picture, best director and several other categories too.
David Bowie on stage at Live Aid in 1985.
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Live Aid showed charities how much celebrity involvement could raise the profile of particular causes – but also the kind of problems that associations like this can bring.
Emma Stone as the irrepressible Bella Baxter in Poor Things.
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Composer Jerskin Fendrix’s first-time film score is a hoot.
Pyper Braun as Alice with Chauncey the bear.
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Some children have companions that are disobedient or even mean.
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Climate scientists have simulated Arrakis as a desert and with its long-lost oceans.
Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Their novels feature defiant heroines, who resist the tyranny of forced marriages and seek moral, intellectual and economic liberation.
Women spinning and socialising. From Augustine’s La Cité de Dieu.
Museum Meermanno
The Distaff Gospels is a collection of advice around pregnancy, childbirth and health. It was shared between French women while spinning flax.
Susanne Augustesen of Denmark takes a shot during the final of the 1971 Women’s World Cup in Mexico City.
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Thousands of fans packed out stadiums for the 1971 women’s World Cup, but it has been virtually erased from history.
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Gladstone has used her platform in the run-up to this year’s awards season to highlight issues affecting Native American communities in America today.
Noel Fielding in The Completely Made-up Adventures of Dick Turpin.
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Not the dandy highwayman of popular imagination, Dick Turpin was a violent and, according to records, ugly criminal.