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July 2024

  • Rowan Moore

    Historic British seaside hotels are glorious white elephants, but perhaps they can have new lives

    Rowan Moore
    Giant structures in an array of far-fetched architectural styles rose with coming of railways and declined with popularity of air travel, writes Rowan Moore

June 2024

  • Suranne Jones stood in front of a hawthorn tree, Burnley, Lancashire.

    TV review
    Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials review – the misogyny will make you want to smash furniture

  • Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud.

    TV review
    Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud review – give this compelling singer his own podcast series

May 2024

  • george the poet, hands together, looking up

    Track Record by George the Poet review – Black artistry and home truths

    The spoken word artist and podcaster’s hybrid of social history and rallying cry is heartfelt, if occasionally hectoring

April 2024

  • Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra (1963)

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: who has been treated most unfairly by history?

  • A marble statue of the Roman emperor Nero as a young man, part of the Louvre’s collection

    Notes and queries
    Who has been treated most unfairly by history?

  • Cuddle time … Untitled, from Living Room.

    Domestic bliss: legends in their own living rooms – in pictures

  • Who She Wanted and What She Got, Kids at the In-laws, Boxing Day, South Bank,
Middlesbrough. 1982

    Boom and bust in the industrial north-east – in pictures

February 2024

  • Footballer Justin Fashanu in 1981.

    Book of the day
    Revolutionary Acts by Jason Okundaye review – bringing Black gay history to life

    This groundbreaking debut tells the stories of six radicals who were among the first out Black gay men in Britain

January 2024

  • ‘Simultaneously bygone and timeless’ … Easter Parade, New York City, 1952–55

    ‘Poetic glimpses of postwar America’: Garry Winogrand’s colourful streets – in pictures

    The influential street photographer was known for his black-and-white images, but a new book collects the dazzling colour slides he captured from the 1950s onwards

November 2023

  • A female conservator holds up an old letter above a box containing a bundle of similar letters. Around her on tables are other documents from the collection on display

    ‘Your wife wants to see you’: 18th-century Spanish letters seized at sea by British published online

    Correspondence taken from 130 captured ships reveal details of the stories of seafarers and their families in the 1700s

October 2023

  • Jose Harris, historian

    Jose Harris obituary

  • Black patent leather women's shoes with very high heels, bright red soles and aggressive studs all over the uppers

    From poverty clogs to killer heels: the 1,000-year story of British footwear

September 2023

  • From left to right: Clapham Junction, Leeds Market and Brick Lane embroidered by the artist Lynn Setterington.

    Social history, sewn up: English street scenes embroidered – in pictures

  • Fleeing the Great Fire of London, as depicted in an 19th-century illustration.

    Museum of London identifies man who raised alarm over Great Fire

August 2023

  • Travellers' rest stone by side of the road

    Stones made for Victorian project to help Irish workers given listed status

    ‘Travellers’ rest’ stones were idea of Warrington doctor and part of wider scheme to help migrant workers

July 2023

  • Turbulent times … young unemployed demonstrators in November 1981.

    ‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme

  • Sonny Roberts pictured in 1982 outside his shop Orbitone.

    ‘I felt his vibration!’ Sonny Roberts, the UK’s first Black music studio owner

June 2023

  • Exuding confidence … Secretaries in Rawlings Park, Washington, 1965.

    Evelyn Hofer/ Johny Pitts reviews – secs and the great big pulsing city

  • Palermo. Palermo. Children in cowboy suits on the day of the Dead, November 2, 1959.

    Mobsters, murder and moments of resistance: life under the Sicilian mafia – in pictures

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