3 d. ago Tim Dowling: my wife has always wanted to kick me out of book club. Now’s her chance

We have difffering views on my contribution to our book club: I see myself as its beating heart; my wife says I’m an interloperFor the first time in the history of book club, I can’t make it to book club. The scheduling conflict arises late in the day, which is galling because I’ve already read the book, and I can’t very well unread it.“You won’t be missed,” my wife says. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Andy Robertson declares Steve Clarke Scotland's greatest ever as he reveals speech that inspired World Cup heroics

Clarke entered the history books after taking the nation back to the World Cup and Robertson reckons nobody can deny he is now the country's greatest boss.

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6 d. ago Andy Robertson on brink of tears as he pays tribute to Diogo Jota in emotional interview after Scotland qualify for the 2026 World Cup finals

Kieran Tierney 's dramatic 93rd minute strike and Kenny McLean's half-way line effort ensured Steve Clarke's side wrote their name into the history books as Scotland qualified.

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6 d. ago Scotland fans celebrate stunning night of history at Hampden

The country held its breath as Steve Clarke’s men pulled out all the stops in front of a 52-000 strong crowd, who roared them into the history books after almost three decades.

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6 d. ago Andy Robertson on brink of tears as he pays tribute to Diogo Jota in emotional interview after Scotland qualified for the 2026 World Cup

Kieran Tierney 's dramatic 93rd minute strike and Kenny McLean's half-way line effort ensured Steve Clarke's side wrote their name into the history books as Scotland qualified.

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7 d. ago Death threats and accusations: the professor targeted by the US far right

Mark Bray has become one of the highest-profile people caught up in Donald Trump’s efforts to target AntifaBaggage dropped and boarding passes in hand, Mark Bray and his family cleared security at Newark airport in early October. Their flight to Spain was meant to ferry the family of four to safety after days of mounting threats; instead, as they waited at the gate to board, they were told that someone had cancelled their reservation.“It felt like I was being watched and laughed at,” said Bray, a professor at Rutgers university who teaches a course on the history of antifascism and in 2017 wrote a book on Antifa. “I knew it was politically motivated one way or the other.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Anne Summers: ‘A lot of men resent the fact that women have rights and have entitlements and have freedoms’

Fifty years after writing a book which would change how Australians view their history and culture, the author and journalist isn’t slowing downGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnne Summers is scrutinising street numbers as we walk. Pausing in front of a 19th-century mansion, the author and journalist looks up to its second storey. “This is where I was arrested.”“Oh wow,” she says, taking in its immaculate sandstone facade. “It didn’t look like this then.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Rare bronze and iron age log boats reveal details of Cambridgeshire prehistory

Well-preserved oak and maple boats used for transport and fishing to be displayed in PeterboroughAfter lying undisturbed in mud for more than 3,000 years, three rare bronze and iron age log boats have emerged to offer fresh insights into prehistoric life.The boats were among nine discovered in a Cambridgeshire quarry 13 years ago – the largest group of prehistoric boats found in the same UK site. Most were well preserved, with one still able to float despite its long incarceration. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Feminist History for Every Day of the Year by Kate Mosse review – the women who helped change the world

The bestselling author champions female trailblazers in an enjoyable anthology for all agesWomen make up roughly 50% of the population but only feature in about 0.5% of recorded history. In Feminist History for Every Day of the Year, Kate Mosse, the bestselling author of Labyrinth, celebrates can-do women and gives history’s trailblazers their due. Aimed at teenage readers but just as enjoyable for adults, this anthology comprises bite-sized stories of female achievement and the centuries-old fight for equality. As Mosse notes in the introduction, it is about women “who refused to accept the limitations put on them, who campaigned and marched, battled and challenged the status quo to change the world for the better”.The book features a mixture of famous and lesser-known figures: artists, writers, scientists, academics, sportswomen, educators and politicians. There’s primatologist Dian Fossey; avant garde painter Amrita Sher-Gil; Britain’s first black headteacher Beryl Gilroy; Pakist...

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2 w. ago One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson review – freewheeling reflections on life, art and AI

One Thousand and One Nights is the framing device for the author’s pithy and thought provoking takes on everything from eugenics to trouser suitsIn the framing device that opens the Middle Eastern folk tales collected in One Thousand and One Nights, King Shahryar avenges his wife’s infidelity by ordering her execution and marrying a new virgin every night, having each of them beheaded by sunrise so they won’t have time to cheat. When he runs out of victims, the young Persian queen Shahrazad volunteers but stalls her own murder by telling the king one captivating tale after another – and those become the stories we’re reading.As Jeanette Winterson puts it in her new book – a dizzying whirligig of memoir, history, philosophy, politics and self-help, loosely tied to commentary on the Nights – Shahrazad’s feat of creativity “refuses the present emergency – the contrived drama of a powerful man”. The echo of life in the Trump era is deliberate...

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2 w. ago Picture This: A catwalk through every Jean Paul Gaultier collection

Megan Conlon reviews this beautifully illustrated new book which traces the radical history and industry defining designs of Jean Paul Gautier.

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2 w. ago The Holiday house is real! Fans can now stay inside Kate Winslet's iconic cottage

Attention rom-com lovers, the most iconic festive cottage in movie history is now a real place you can actually book.

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2 w. ago ‘Masterpiece’ war film fans say is ‘one of the best films ever made’ airing on TV tonight

It made history with its release in 1995 and tonight this iconic film will go down in the history books of your movie nights at home as it's set to air on Film4

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3 w. ago Book lovers' dream with more than 20 book shops and special claim to fame

Sitting quietly on the border of England and Wales this quaint town made history when it was named as the world's first 'book town', and continues to draw in bookworms across the UK

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3 w. ago Brendan Rodgers changed my life and Celtic exit hit hard but now I'm dreaming of slaying Rangers

Johnny Kenny is determined to end a traumatic week by writing his place in the Hoops history books

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3 w. ago Arsenal vs Brighton LIVE: Carabao Cup result, match stream and latest updates

Max Dowman makes history as Gunners book quarter-final date with Crystal Palace

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4 w. ago The Connaught’s first book is document of its extravagant history

The Connaught’s first book is document of its extravagant history  wallpaper.com

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4 w. ago How Iron Age Britons performed human sacrifices to tell the future: Unearthed body rewrites history books

Physical proof of barbaric Iron Age ritual killings has been discovered in a field near Bere Regis, in Dorset, after archaeologists uncovered two skeletons dated to between 100 and 50 BC.

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last month Racism of 70s and 80s back on the streets of London, warns Cabinet minister Wes Streeting

The Ilford North Labour MP stressed he had thought that such abuse had been confined to the ‘history books’

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