The
House that Wren never really lived in
Gillian Tindalls 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 Pauls Cathedral,
one could easily... >
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The
nation's favourite from the mantelpiece - OUR modern governments
can be just as treacherous as the Cambridge spies were, Britains
favourite playwright... >
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From
Pointless Park to Karl Marx Square - THERES an evocative
scene in Alexei Sayles new book when one of the main characters,
Harriet, goes to a gym called... >
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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. >
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The
mystery of Equiano - EVERYBODY who is familiar with the
brilliant 18th-century memoir: The Interesting Narrative of
Olaudah Equiano... >
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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... >
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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... >
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Dame
Shirley and the subversion of democracy - WE all have good
and bad years but 1991 was the beginning of the end for... >
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Edna's
political life with Denis - DENIS Healey, ebullient as ever,
sat at the piano in the Hampstead Community Centre. Roll
out the barrel, Well have a... >
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Things
to make you go coup! - ON page 137 of Edna Healeys
smug autobiography she recalls phone calls from her friend Anne
the wife of Cecil King. >
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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... >
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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... >
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Good
housing for all: Where did we go so wrong? - OVER the last
three decades Britains housing policy has been a unique
national disaster. Good housing... >
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A
butcher's hook at a trade fast dying out - THERE was a silver
lining for butcher delivery boy Desmond Whyman. >
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Undoubtedly
Matisse - ON his deathbed half a century ago, Henri Matisse
didnt make some significant statement about a life packed
with humiliation... >
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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... >
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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. >
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Elaine,
84, proves it's never too late to write - WHEN novelist
Fay Weldon read the first draft chapters of Elaine Basss
bizarre story about her marriage to a man... >
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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...>
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The
greatest historian ever, and still a radical - PROFESSOR
Eric Hobsbawm, the famously unrepentant communist,
is now 88 years old. He is a little... >
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Actor
Henry's love for 'the Jewish Dickens' - Henry Goodman brings
the words of Victorian novelist Israel Zangwill to life, writes
Jane Wright. >
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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. >
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That's
entertainment! - The music halls were pioneers of mass entertainment
long before cinema and TV, writes Amanda Sebestyen. >
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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...>
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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
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Doctor
in search of emotional answers - From apartheid
South Africa to medical anthropology and poetry, Cecil Helmans
tales offer an engaging insight into the healing art, writes
Sunita Rappai...more
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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
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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
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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
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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....
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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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