It is almost the inverse of the Disney parks where you pay to have a prepared experience offered to you. At Ghibli ...

An ocean-going navy is not a workaday public service, like a coastguard or a constabulary. It is a grand project, ...

All the little aliens in the Duane Barry episode are children wearing huge grey heads. Between takes they ran around, playing ...

Only two daughters of the Tudor dynasty in its three-generation tenure of the English crown experienced the full force of ...

In no sense was Frank Auerbach a topographical artist. Primrose Hill, Mornington Crescent and the entrance to his ...

Keir Starmer described Badenoch’s election as a ‘proud moment for our country’. He presumably meant that ...

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Donald Trump ’s return as US president can’t match the shock of his ascent in 2016. But it does force a permanent change in historical perspective. In 2020, Joe Biden’s victory was treated by Trump’s ...

Jane Ellen Harrison was Britain’s first female career academic, a maverick public intellectual labelled ‘the cleverest woman in England’. Her quips and quirks have become legendary, but many of those ...

The character of Gawain, one of King Arthur’s leading knights, recurs throughout medieval literature, but the way he’s presented underwent a curious development during the period, moving closer and ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In episode one of Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom begin with a beginning, Homer’s Iliad: its depictions of anger ...

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