How Valentine’s Day was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and ‘manufactured intimacy’
In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to ...
Creating Carmen: Opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked at Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre ...
From the topless showgirl to a giant’s head: the faked images that caused a sensation
On show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is a picture printed in 1925 by the New York Evening Graphic, a publication described ...
The Birth of the American Military
Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...
Creating Carmen: opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked at Silsden Town Hall
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre show, Creating Carmen, by award-winning playwright Clare Norburn and ...
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Creating Carmen: opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked at Gregson Arts Centre, Lancaster
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre show, Creating Carmen, by award-winning playwright Clare Norburn and ...
Faces of seven men and women executed at Walton prison
On August 13, 1964, killers Peter Anthony Allan and Gwynne Owen Evans were simultaneously hanged at Walton Prison and ...
The inconvenient ‘public women’ of history
In a patriarchal world, women who refused to conform to traditional roles were viewed as transgressive and subversive ...
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Amazing facts of life
Avisiting lecturer at a private educational institute was awaiting the payment for his services. The Director of Studies ...
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Creating Carmen: Opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked in Bedford
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre show, Creating Carmen, at Bunyan Meeting Church.
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Valentine's Day And The Industrial Revolution: When Romance Became Big Business
The Industrial Revolution transformed Valentine’s Day by mass-producing greeting cards, turning a personal tradition into a commercialized industry. It's a shift that not only changed the way emotions ...
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Creating Carmen: Opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked at Bunyan Meeting Church
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre show, Creating Carmen, by award-winning playwright Clare Norburn and ...