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Ghosts of the Spanish civil war
A ghostly Franco visits an elderly man in the latest novel by Patrick McGrath. He joins historian Duncan Wheeler and the makers of a prize winning do…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Wolfson History Prize 2021
Toussaint Louverture's revolutionary leadership in Haiti; Ravenna's place as a hub of culture and a meeting point of East and West; how motherhood an…
4 years, 11 months ago
Lost cities, 20s divas and 2011 uprisings
Singer Umm Kulthum, Mounira al-Mahdiyya, Badia Masabni. These are the names of the pioneering performers working in Cairo's dance halls and theatres …
4 years, 11 months ago
New Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data
What stories are being uncovered by people working behind the scenes at museums and institutions? Lisa Mullen finds out talking to Tessa Jackson – Co…
4 years, 11 months ago
Marlon James and Neil Gaiman
From the appeal of trickster gods Anansi and Loki to the joy of comics and fantasy: Booker prize winner Marlon James and Neil Gaiman, author of the b…
4 years, 11 months ago
Alison Bechdel
The Bechdel test asks whether two women are having a conversation which doesn't relate to a man. Many films, books and plays fall foul of the measure…
4 years, 11 months ago
Napoleon the gardener and art thief
The day before Napoleon's death on May 5th 1821, the willow tree he liked to sit under on St Helena was felled by tempestuous winds. Ruth Scurr has w…
4 years, 11 months ago
Samuel Johnson's circle
"We suffer from Johnson" - those words come in a poem written by his friend, the diarist Hester Thrale Piozzi (who died May 2nd 1821). Patience Agbab…
4 years, 11 months ago
Northern Ireland
A Northern Irish writer - what does that label mean? Lucy Caldwell compares notes with Caroline Magennis about the way authors are charting change an…
4 years, 11 months ago
New Generation Thinkers: A Norwegian Morality Tale
Eight churches were set on fire, and a taste for occult rituals and satanic imagery spiralled into suicide and murder in the Norwegian Black metal sc…
4 years, 11 months ago