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The contribution of eminent male thinkers to intellectual and public life is well documented: we all know our Kant from our Keynes, our Wittgenstein from our Wilberforce. It’s no secret that women and women’s ...
Leafy London squares, boldly painted furniture, cottage-style gardens and unorthodox ménages: the loose circle of writers and artists which came to be known as the Bloomsbury Group are perhaps as well-known for their aesthetic tastes ...
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A bank collapses, and the public rush to withdraw their savings as the fear of losing everything sets in. It’s a familiar story, but isn’t necessarily one that exists only in the twentieth and twenty-first ...
Touring Britain this summer is the Townsend Productions theatre adaptation of Robert Tressell’s* socialist novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. A semi-autobiographical account of the plight of the working class, the story follows a group of construction ...
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