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He was seen as ‘moody’ and ‘petulant’, but Murray was just a single-minded champion who deserves the success he has enjoyed.
Male monks were not the sole producers of books throughout the Middle Ages.
Our birth is one of the all-important bookends of our lives and affects so much of what comes later – so why don’t we think about it more?
Tintin’s adventures aren’t just fun to read – you can pick up a lot of history as well.
It made for brilliant viewing, but Channel 4’s Brexit drama missed out on some important details.
The Brazilian president used WhatsApp and other social media to smear his opponents and sow division in the electorate.
A new film tells the moving story of the twilight years of comedy’s most successful double act.
60 years ago a revolution began within the revolution for Cuba’s film industry.
Social media promised to be a democratising platform for citizen journalists – but now its limitations are becoming clear.
As more and more children embrace meat-free diets, using ‘Chicken Run’ to promote burgers may no longer work for fast food chains.
Reports of demonic possession are once again on the rise. But during the devil’s last apogee in early modern Europe, demonic afflictions were taken seriously by both priests and physicians.
In the 1980s, Diane Torr was struggling as an office employee and moonlighting go-go dancer – until she read Angela Carter’s The Sadeian Woman.
Future Sounds: Listening to Lynette Roberts, the forgotten Welsh poet.
Though it causes great personal pain, Hiroshima’s last remaining orphans still want the world to hear their stories, 75 years on.
Christmas annuals are still found countless trees but how did they become some popular in the first place?
Post-apocalyptic visions reflect society’s fears – and gamers get to immerse themselves in it.
Here’s a bumper crop of thought-provoking and engaging novels for enquiring minds.
If it hadn’t been for A Christmas Carol, the menu may well have centred on goose (or a boar’s head).
For Victorian shop workers, Christmas could be a miserable time of long hours and low pay.
Our obsession with busyness is about managing relationships – not just time.
Not giving offence is what Christmas is all about.
Vegeterian and vegan food is often marketed as close enough to meat that you can hardly tell the difference. This devotion to mimicking meat stifles creative alternatives to Christmas dinner.
Once again, the Special One has become the Unemployed One. Here’s the case for a period of rehabilitation.
If you are tired of A Christmas Carol, why not try one of the few Hardy stories where all’s well that ends well.