British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

In my own For You journey into Faragism, I was struck by the recurring assumption that the ultimate prize was exit ...

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Gulbadan Begum was the daughter of the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is the only Mughal woman known to have ...

In 2004, the House of Lords allowed the appeal of nine foreign nationals against their indefinite detention under the ...

The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya ...

Didion’s essay ‘On Keeping a Notebook’, from 1966, is where readers first met Quintana, in the year she was born. ‘Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old,’ ...

Ouvidor 63 is an illegal but tolerated artist-led occupation of an office block in downtown São Paulo. There are perhaps two ...

‘I want to write a poem of a new class – a Don Juan, without the mockery and impurity,’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to a friend in 1844, ‘and admitting of as much philosophical dreaming and ...

Belle da Costa Greene was one of the best-paid women in New York City. As J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, she criss-crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of rare manuscripts to add to his collection, ...

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Kathleen Jamie is the author of several poetry collections, including The Queen of Sheba, The Tree House and The Overhaul, and three essay collections, Findings, Sightlines and Surfacing.She became ...