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The secret world under the noses of the Nazis

The most famous attempt by Jews to resist the Nazis in armed fighting occurred in the Warsaw ghetto, writes David Rosenberg

JUST weeks before the Nazi army burnt the Warsaw Ghetto to a cinder, and flushed out the last heroic resisters an... > more
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PHAEDRA

Death and incest demand passion
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CAMDEN CRAWL

Queues, blues and ruined shoes ­ Yep, it's the Crawl
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SLITHER

Slither up the cinema aisle for a taste of freaky horror
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Of the original Terrace, only No 49 has survived
The House that Wren never really lived in

Gillian Tindall’s brilliant eye for detail is what makes the history of 49 Bankside so fascinating, writes Jonathan Fryer

Taking a Sunday afternoon stroll along Bankside, on the southern bank of the Thames opposite St Paul’s Cathedral, one could easily... > more

The nation's favourite from the mantelpiece - OUR modern governments can be just as treacherous as the Cambridge spies were, Britain’s favourite playwright... > more

From Pointless Park to Karl Marx Square - THERE’S an evocative scene in Alexei Sayle’s new book when one of the main characters, Harriet, goes to a gym called... > more

Science essays to dispel myth of common sense - SCIENCE can be difficult for non-scientists as the world is not built on common-sense principles. > more

The mystery of Equiano - EVERYBODY who is familiar with the brilliant 18th-century memoir: The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano... > more

Samuel Beckett gave the world everything he had - SAMUEL Beckett was born in a significant year, that of the great Liberal Party landslide which signalled... > more

Iqbal's travels: A dream of England shattered - AN Imperial hangover is still with us: but its effects are only noticeable if you know where to look. For Hampstead-based... > more

Dame Shirley and the subversion of democracy - WE all have good and bad years but 1991 was the beginning of the end for... > more

Edna's political life with Denis - DENIS Healey, ebullient as ever, sat at the piano in the Hampstead Community Centre. “Roll out the barrel, We’ll have a... > more

Things to make you go coup! - ON page 137 of Edna Healey’s smug autobiography she recalls phone calls from her friend Anne the wife of Cecil King. > more

The man behind the map - THE sprawl of the city was proving hard to negotiate for art student Ken Garland. It was the mid-1950s: he had moved to London from... > more

Idealised and idolised: The navvies who built London - THE pregnancy was not planned, but was hardly a surprise: the artist Ford Madox Brown had fallen in love with... > more

Good housing for all: Where did we go so wrong? - OVER the last three decades Britain’s housing policy has been a unique national disaster. Good housing... > more

A butcher's hook at a trade fast dying out - THERE was a silver lining for butcher delivery boy Desmond Whyman. > more

Undoubtedly Matisse - ON his deathbed half a century ago, Henri Matisse didn’t make some significant statement about a life packed with humiliation... > more

The Nazi sympathies of England's voice - HV Morton was covered in sweat. He had a raging temperature and a neck that was so stiff he... > more

Wanda's odes to love and passion - AT the age of 75, the poet Wanda Barford has written a series of love sonnets that move, delight and stir the blood. > more

Elaine, 84, proves it's never too late to write - WHEN novelist Fay Weldon read the first draft chapters of Elaine Bass’s bizarre story about her marriage to a man... > more

Rambling good times of a true jazz lover - SEVEN years ago, Alan Plater wrote a love-letter to the jazz great Duke Ellington. The great man had been dead a long...> more

The greatest historian ever, and still a radical - PROFESSOR Eric Hobsbawm, the famously “unrepentant communist”, is now 88 years old. He is a little... > more

Actor Henry's love for 'the Jewish Dickens' - Henry Goodman brings the words of Victorian novelist Israel Zangwill to life, writes Jane Wright. > more

Cooking with Claudia to give peace a chance - Cookery guru Claudia Roden wants to bring about peace in the Middle East through good food, writes Ruth Gorb. > more

That's entertainment! - The music halls were pioneers of mass entertainment ­ long before cinema and TV, writes Amanda Sebestyen. > more

One day in the life of Alan the actor - Brad Pitt could not understand one word Cockney actor Alan Ford was saying during the filming of Guy Ritchie's Snatch...> more

Two views on a Spurs great - Bill Nicholson made Spurs one of the most exciting clubs to watch with his drive for fast-flowing football, writes Dan Carrier... more >>

Doctor in search of emotional answers - From apartheid South Africa to medical anthropology and poetry, Cecil Helman’s tales offer an engaging insight into the healing art, writes Sunita Rappai...more >>

Phillips claims rappers are modern minstrels - Novelist Caryl Phillips tells of a ridiculed black minstrel and draws parallels with today's pigeon-holed performers... more >>

The Shakespeare players - Peter Ackroyd takes us into the dirt of Shakespeare’s London and gets to grips with the playwright’s genius, writes Illtyd Harrington... more >>

Almost every street has a gruesome story to tell - Numerous filthy murders committed in north London during the last four centuries have gone undetected. Dan Carrier investigates.. more >>

Always judge a book by its classic design cover - Design cognoscenti have always valued the Penguin aesthetic; book-lovers have always cherished their dog-eared Penguin paperbacks.... more >>

If the whole world’s a stage, this is the atlas - It’s a shame that such a readable examination of the stage should be restricted to the world of actors, writes Chris Larkin. A great actor, my father, once told me... more >>

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