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Romeo a Juliet does not make any of its political points overtly, and this is an occasion where some things are better left ...

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Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...

If history were about repeats, which it is not, not exactly, but still, today’s America would best be seen in light of what ...

It will mean that the ERA will organise and oversee an exciting series of nine back-to-back themed exhibitions, exclusively ...

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The new Heritage Shell Guide to Derbyshire has issued a stark warning about the scale of quarrying in the region.

Bookshop lovers can wander from Hatchards, London’s oldest bookstore that was established 1797, to Foyles on Charing Cross ...

In early English, to call something “brazen” simply meant it ... The figurative sense of shameless boldness emerged around the 1570s, and by the Elizabethan era, it had become common in literature and ...

No one did it like The Bard, so it’s no surprise that some myths about him and his writing have seeped into our culture over ...

In 1605, a small band of English Catholics tried to destroy the king, his family and parliament in a single explosion. This ...