Historical figures’ letters offer us hope A newly discovered letter written by a young Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson hit the headlines last week. Published 19 Aug, 2014 05:37am
Passing of the secretary-wives’ era BEFORE her death last week at the age of 86, Valerie Eliot had spent the previous half-century forbidding impertinent journalists and scholars from accessing her late husband T.S. Eliot’s private papers. Published 15 Nov, 2012 12:00am
Gone With The Wind revisited LONDON Gone With The Wind, both the film and the book, has long been a key staging post in female adolescence. For... Published 25 May, 2009 12:00am
Bah! Humbug! In 1868, two years before his death and fagged out with the annual chore of coming up with a new Christmas number of... Published 10 Feb, 2008 12:00am
Demons and avatars won’t liberate us from housework LONDON: It always sounds exhilarating, how the internet is going to liberate us from the mundane shackles of a ... Published 29 Dec, 2007 12:00am
