What the papers say.
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When we read press reports about immigration it pays to think about what motivates the journalists.
Privacy, please.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex wish to keep the arrival of their baby private – and it’s caused some consternation. But this was normal for most medieval women.
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For HBO, online piracy is not the huge issue it represents for the platforms that screen its content.
Stéphanie Frappart during the UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 match at the De Grolsch Veste, Enschede.
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Stéphanie Frappart’s Ligue 1 appointment is well deserved, but the reasoning behind it seems bregruding.
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The institution of pet-keeping is fundamentally unjust as it involves the manipulation of animals’ bodies, behaviours and emotional lives.
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A new study highlights the significant differences in attitudes between UK and German journalists.
For decades, Du Maurier poems were hidden behind this picture.
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Hidden behind a photograph of the author about to dive into the sea, the new poems give is a picture of a young writer beginning to test out her ideas.
Children watch a performance of Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe.
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Study uncovers what inner-city teenagers really thing about Hamlet et al.
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Medieval churches have often suffered fires. A look at those in Britain shows that Notre Dame can be rebuilt.
Walking in water: James Burke-Dunsmore as Jesus in the Good Friday performance of the Passion of Jesus, staged by the Wintershall Players, in Trafalgar Square, London, April 2018.
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Was Jesus Christ the first male lead in the history of modern theatre?
Holy Crown of Thorns worn by Jesus Christ is presented for in a special service at Notre Dame Cathedral, June 2017.
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One of the most sacred relics in the Christian world was saved from the Notre Dame fire. Here is its history.
The Seine and Notre Dame, physically and spiritually the heart of Paris.
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From coronations to Revolution to reconciliation, Notre Dame has witnessed nearly 900 years of French history.
Why do we eat chocolate bunnies at Easter? It’s a long story.
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Easter is actually a mish-mash of different traditions celebrating the coming of spring.
Pope Francis conducts the Maundy Thursday service at Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City in April 2017.
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Pope Francis is gradually moving the Catholic Church away from the traditional idea of bread and wine turning into flash and blood.
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A legal expert looks at the issue of robot rights and what makes us human.
Parisians watch as their beloved Notre Dame burns.
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Words are as important as pictures for helping us come to terms with such a huge cultural loss.
Spanish practices.
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Whenever writings were explicit, liberal or anti-Catholic, the Francoist censors crossed them out.
‘Arroz con Pollo’ by US artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, part of the ‘Basquiat – Schiele’ exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, 2018.
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Prada and Louis Vuitton are just two major brand names to make a big play in the art world. But if you are looking for innovation you may be disappointed.
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in season 8 of Game of Thrones.
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For all its queer characters, Westeros is a gender binary world.
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This explains why some aspects of English can be hard to learn for speakers of other languages.
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Critically acclaimed art installation highlights the way that the ubiquity of clocks and watches has transformed our relationship to time and the present.
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From the Archives: Ernaux’s English translation, Happening, has come to be seen as one of the great pieces of writing about abortion.
Thousands of women march on the occasion of International Women’s Day in Mexico City, March 8, 2019.
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The backlash against sexual harassment and assault of women in Mexico was slow to get started, but thanks to a Twitter campaign, women in all professions are now beginning to speak out.
Illustration of ‘Axminster’ linoleum, in ‘Catesby’s one-piece linola squares’, Catesbys Colourful Cork Lino (1938).
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Some houses are like a time capsule of social history that can tell us how living standards, and fashions, have changed over the years.
Grill, a 19-year-old female California sea lion, holds a brush in her jaws after writing the calligraphy ‘Reiwa’ to mark the beginning of a new era for Japan.
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The country has reached back more than a thousand years into its early literary heritage for an auspicious name for a new era under a new emperor.