Modern version of Punch and Judy set to be unveiled at major London festival
A contemporary version of Punch and Judy that offers a more gender balanced representation of the controversial couple is set...
Arts & Culture
Recovered Cotton Famine era poetry published in first complete collection
A complete collection of poems written during the historic cotton famine of the 19th century and rediscovered after more than...
New exhibition shows decades-long road to the birth of the Channel Tunnel
The world’s leading engineering minds explored the potential for a bridge to France and conducted decades of painstaking research to...
‘Forgotten’ award-winning author Jean Rhys to be remembered and celebrated at public event
The life and work of writer Jean Rhys, author of the renowned postcolonial novel Wide Sargasso Sea, is to be...
Olympics not likely to swallow up skateboarding’s subversive nature into its corporate spectacle, study says
The subversive nature of skateboarding is not likely to be affected by its continuing place in the corporate world of...
Acclaimed new book turns modern economic history on its head
The leading advocates of free trade during the mid-19th-20th centuries were inspired by left-wing, anti-imperialist, feminist and pacifist motivations, according...
Report warns that performing arts under threat from future global shocks unless lessons are learned from pandemic
Live performing arts are facing an existential threat from a range of potential global shocks unless there is significant and...
Historian publishes shocking new book on the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan
A powerful new history book that seeks to demystify the notorious Ku Klux Klan has been published by an expert...
Tudor era horse cemetery in Westminster revealed as likely resting place for elite imported animals
Archaeological analysis of a near unique animal cemetery discovered in London nearly 30 years ago has revealed the international scale...