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Pranks

In 1910 Virginia Woolf and a group of friends caused a stir when they were welcomed on board the...

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What does feminist art mean?

Who's Holding the Baby? was the title of an exhibition organised to highlight a lack of childcare...

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New Thinking: Light and Darkness

The impact of light bulbs on cities like New York and Paris at the turn of the twentieth century...

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New Thinking: East West artistic connections

The Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens produced around 1,500 artworks, and a new research...

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Approaches to death

Viking burials, preserving archaeology in Uganda, the morgues of Paris and New York and the...

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Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners

A 1660s board game made by a Jesuit missionary sent to the Mohawk Valley in North America is the...

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Writing Place

An ancient Sussex church - home to a medieval anchorite and the cottage where William Blake...

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Arteries of tomorrow

The A13 runs from the City of London past Tilbury Docks and the site of the Dagenham Ford factory...

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Gas, oil and the Essex blues

Canvey Island: cradle of innovation for gas heating and home to music makers Dr Feelgood, who...

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The Legacy of the Laundries

From 1922, between 10-30,000 women and girls are thought to have been incarcerated at the...

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How water shapes our history and environment

Whilst water is the most important substance on earth, we take it for granted in our modern...

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Weird Viking Bodies

Looking at the way human and animal bodies were treated in death and used in rituals prompts New...

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From algorithms to oceans

Two years living at sea taught New Generation Thinker Kerry McInerney values which she wants to...

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Scottish Kingship

In 2024, Scotland marks two big anniversaries: David I ascended the throne nine centuries ago and...

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Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft

Amalia Holst's defence of female education, published in 1802, was the first work by a woman in...

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Free speech, censorship and modern China

Rana Mitter explores looks at the role of writing in propagating ideas and exposing political...

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Call Me Mother

Why do babies say "daddy" earlier and what might it mean when a baby does call for "mum" or...

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Edward Bond

When Saved was banned in 1965 by the Lord Chamberlain's office, the Royal Court theatre turned...

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Sleep justice and sleeplessness

There's nothing like a good night's sleep, but Laurence Scott discovers that our ability to enjoy...

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Images of Persia

The medieval poet Hafez and how his work speaks to today, the impact of digs undertaken by...

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