Young people would cross territorial boundaries for band practice, house parties or underground gigs.
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Burial grounds are filling up but are new methods any more green than traditional options?
Maitland was an educated, intellectual and self-determining woman and who found (and, sadly, lost) her big love.
Mary Leapor worked as a servant at Edgcote House and documented the goings on below stairs in her poetry.
Attempts to transpose the locations of The Odyssey accurately to modern maps have proved difficult.
Reading rarely starts with abstract arguments about its value – it often begins with subjects that already matter.
New evidence suggests a massive centuries-long drought may be part of the answer.
Rather than simply recounting history, each new version reworks a shared cultural template for contemporary audiences.
In the 1930s, the Lamb family buy the land on which they were enslaved but attempts to take it from them dog them across generations.
Evil Dead’s shared universe doesn’t behave like other modern franchises.
Patrice Lawrence’s vision for her children’s laureateship is to foster a sense of belonging through reading.
Some writers describe the world as it is. Shahrnush Parsipur spent her life imagining how it might be different.
AI’s dynamic of distant, unseen control recalls Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Bonnie’s story captures experiences that many neurodivergent families are familiar with.
The Vikings are big draw for tourists and museums struggle to balance the real history.
In terms of heritage, visibility and identity, this inclusive introduction to Cornish could be crucial.
Five books that span time and place, from the music scene in 80s London to the philosophical scene of Ancient Rome.
These schools were radical for their time as they countered the rigid Victorian association of women with domestic work.
Five books that take you all over the world
The 70-metre embroidery will be displayed at the British Museum from September.
There are many more female artists in the 2020s than the early 1980s, but none is as iconoclastic as Madonna, more than 40 years on from her debut.
I wanted to make a film about solo parenting in all its messiness, the highs, but also the lows. I shot with my smartphone, almost daily, for nearly two decades.
You won’t regret taking up this intellectually and physically stimulating sport as a hobby.
The exhibition is the product of the British Museum in Your Classroom programme where schools get access to the institution’s collection
The Iliad does not unfold as a smooth, continuous narrative. Instead, it advances through a succession of micro-episodes.