Something strange and wonderful happens if you read every novel Drabble wrote between 1963 and 1980, in sequence, one...
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'All I can offer is my years of lived experience,' Lynsey Hanley wrote at the end of Estates: An Intimate History (2007).
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In our monthly series, “TBR: The Booker Revisited,” Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on hidden gems from the Booker Library.
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It was the third and final week of my first dissertation research trip. I'd spent my first two weeks moving slowly through the collections...
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It would be disingenuous of me to pretend that my Conservative-voting mother ever caused me real embarrassment.
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Jyn Erso searches the Imperial archives for the Death Star plans in Rogue One with no catalogue, no file name, and no data.
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Writer and academic Helen Charman's debut non-fiction book tracks the cultural fixation of mothering in art and literature.
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Letters: Women do write history; the issue is why they are neglected.
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1. Much of Sybille Bedford's work considers the ways that the future is mortgaged to the past. For the three generations of women in “A...
107 months ago

'Glory be', said Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary of State for Education, speaking to a meeting of those who study and teach history organised by the Historical...
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