Assessing around 500 of the composer’s correspondence, we are able to see how a rise in sadness and other negative emotions resulted in increased creative productivity.
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Le Carré drew on his own experience to change public perceptions of the world of spying.
While the genre is now overwhelming white, its roots are in Black music.
Barbara Windsor was the Cockney queen of EastEnders but you’re more likely to hear her famous accent in Essex now rather than London.
Academy culture at football clubs must change to protect vulnerable young players when they are rejected as professionals.
As anti-racism moves to centre stage, the industry’s historic issues are coming to light
More than just an entertaining way to pass the time, some players have found that some video games can change how they see the world.
A campaign to change the name of a road in London’s ‘Little India’‘ has succeeded. While some members of the local Sikh population welcome it, others aren’t so happy.
Penny dreadfuls told real stories of murder and mayhem to 19th-century audiences seeking escape from city life. True crime podcasts have a lot in common with them.
As our freedom of movement continues to be curtailed due to COVID-19, webcam travel seems set to continue.
Just because two events last a month does not mean they both last the same amount of time.
Once nimble and reactive to changing trends, Topshop failed to join the internet shopping revolution and it’s paying the price.
Centred around a Blues Party in London, the second film from the Small Axe anthology captured the excitement of setting up a party but missed things about sound system culture in the UK.
It will always be too early, depending on who you ask, so put up your decorations whenever you want if it makes you happy.
DJs had to adopt live streaming during the pandemic. This new way of reaching audiences has created a whole new djing experience that is more accessible to a wider range of people.
How on earth did an obscure Roman social practice end up lending its name to a modern psychedelic?
In England, the continuing anger that Maradona “got away with it” comes out of the ashes of empire.
It might have many critics but the statue tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft succeeds in its abstract commemoration of the feminist. Public sculptures could learn from it
Is the distinction between insanity and religion a mere semantic quibble?
Research shows action is needed to get more kids reading for pleasure – especially those from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds.
The story of child poverty in 1980s Glasgow speaks to current concerns across the UK.
You might have the impression they’re bad but give them another try and you might be surprised.
The film about old toys and new turns 25 this year. Heralded as the first computer animated film, a re-examination indicates it was cautiously innovative rather than a complete break with the past.
Driven by a desire to eliminate pain, some people have shockingly advocated taking the rest of nature with us.
How a series of spoof newspaper reports from America became the cradle of science fiction.