Terence Henry Stamp died on 17 August 2025, aged 87. Known for his sophisticated villain roles, he was named by Empire as one of...
As a child of the 1970s and even now as an adult, this is still my favourite advert ever. I admit that in this...
In the long shadow of war and global disillusionment, Slaughterhouse-Five stands out not just as a literary classic, but as an urgent, strange, and...
The history of Britain's working men’s clubs is rapidly fading in our collective memory, arguably persisting in the cultural imagination mainly through popular shows...
In the cold winter of January 1923, a 29-year-old woman named Edith Thompson was led to the gallows of Holloway Prison. She had been...
WINNER TAKES IT ‘OWL’: LARK MUSIC-MAKING COMPETITION ANNOUNCES 2025 PRIZE-WINNERS
A student, a counsellor, and a former art teacher have been announced as winners of the...
The new Superman film is accused by MAGA of being 'woke'.
Here are two official Superman comic strip images from 1938 and 1949.
And from a...
On the morning of 22 July 1946, the city of Jerusalem awoke to a tragedy that would ripple through history: the bombing of the...
Right-wing political parties across many Western democracies, including the UK, the US, and Australia, have long-standing and well-documented financial ties to the fossil fuel...
History rarely remembers Mary Burns. She’s often mentioned only in passing, as “Engels’ Irish girlfriend,” a minor character in the shadows of Friedrich Engels...
