Why people are flocking to experience the Titanic disaster
Immersive shows recreating the ocean liner’s fateful voyage are attracting audiences globally. But are they valuable historical experiences, or cynically
The 1950 heist to reclaim the ancient Stone of Destiny
An audacious plan In May 1951, the Glasgow University students – Ian Hamilton, Kay Matheson, Gavin Vernon and Alan Stuart
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Stag Dance by Torrey Peters The follow-up to Torrey Peters’ critically acclaimed debut Detransition, Baby is a collection of tales,
My two conversations with Sean Ono Lennon
Tom Brook was the first on the scene when the BBC reported on John Lennon’s death, later interviewing his widow,
Seven of the greatest rivalries in art history
Born just a year apart (Turner in sooty London in 1775, Constable in a serene Suffolk village in 1776), the
The ‘It Girl’ style wars of Renaissance Italy
Her married status didn’t stop brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici fighting over her affections and she was
Why this Indigenous winter scene is not what it seems
Curtis saw his mission as “documenting what he thought of as ‘a dying race’,” Cross tells the BBC. He cropped
The Oscar-tipped Shakespeare drama is moving but ‘manipulative’
The Shakespeare drama starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley has a stellar cast but is “exploitative” and lacks subtlety –
How the Cabbage Patch Kids caused a near-riot in the 1980s
The Little People concept had quickly attracted wider attention well beyond rural Georgia. Babyland even got a mention in the
Hamnet and the 400-year-old mystery around Shakespeare’s wife and son
Oscar-tipped new film Hamnet imagines the home life of William and Agnes Shakespeare – and the “soul-crushing” loss of their