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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Goblin Market’ was the title poem of Christina Rossetti’s first collection, published in 1862, and while she disclaimed any allegorical purpose in it, modern readers have found it hard to resist ...

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 ...

For more than fifty years, Perry Anderson has been the most erudite and compelling voice on the British Marxist left. His writing has always been marked by prodigious reading across the widest ...