54 h. ago 'I visited Brockley for the first time and uncovered hidden gems and family history'

'I visited Brockley for the first time and uncovered hidden gems and family history'  News Shopper

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3 d. ago Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’

Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises societyShe finds the whole idea absurd. To Prof Marci Shore, the notion that the Guardian, or anyone else, should want to interview her about the future of the US is ridiculous. She’s an academic specialising in the history and culture of eastern Europe and describes herself as a “Slavicist”, yet here she is, suddenly besieged by international journalists keen to ask about the country in which she insists she has no expertise: her own. “It’s kind of baffling,” she says.In fact, the explanation is simple enough. Last month, Shore, together with her husband and fellow scholar of European history, Timothy Snyder, and the academic Jason Stanley, made news around the world when they announced that they were moving from Yale University in the US to the University of Toronto in Canada. It was not the move itself so much as their motive that garnered attentio...

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6 d. ago Prince Harry and Meghan Markle make surprise move dubbed 'almost beyond belief'

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have hired a new PR executive who has a complicated history with the royal family due to her previous high-powered role

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7 d. ago Miracle in seat 11A: British national survives Air India plane crash

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh has no memory of escaping one of the worst aviation disasters in India’s history, his family say

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7 d. ago Subpostmistress remembers 'terror' of supporting her young children during the Horizon IT scandal on new Mail podcast

The 'Apple & The Tree' podcast, hosted by the Reverend Richard Coles , brings together parents and their adult children to answer questions about their shared family history.

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8 d. ago Newly discovered ‘Dragon Prince’ dinosaur rewrites family history of T rex

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis lived roughly 86 million years ago and was an immediate precursor to the dinosaur lineage called tyrannosaurs

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8 d. ago Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney review – a satisfying tale of memory and place

Stories within stories give fascinating depth to the prize-winning author’s third novel, about a woman’s return to her family home in the west of IrelandElaine Feeney’s third novel, following the success of her prize-winning debut As You Were and the Booker-longlisted How to Build a Boat, focuses on Claire O’Connor, a woman who has moved from London back to Athenry in the west of Ireland in the wake of her mother’s death. Her new life is disturbed when she finds her ex-partner Tom has moved in down the road. Or rather, that’s one thread in a story that becomes steadily more interesting than this simple set-up from the romance novelist’s playbook, as layers of family memory and trauma build up to form a portrait of the wider O’Connor family: all their history, the way it has shaped them and the traces it has left on the places around.Claire shows herself to be unusually attuned to the history of her home place, telling stories about nearby Thoor Ballylee, where Yeats lived; Lady...

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9 d. ago Moment actress Diane Morgan discovers shocking family secret about her four times great grandmother

The actress, from Bolton, appeared on Tuesday's episode of the BBC show Who Do You Think You Are to learn more about her ambiguous family history.

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2 w. ago TODAY's TV WITH SARA WALLIS: Will Young's shocking family truth on BBC show airing tonight

Will Young is tracing his family history on Who Do You Think You Are? tonight and gets a shock when he finds a connection to one of medieval history’s biggest villains

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2 w. ago `This House' makes world premiere, exploring Black history through a family's legacy in Harlem

“This House,” a rumination on love, aspiration, coping and the unyielding weight of history, made its world premiere Saturday night at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis

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2 w. ago ‘They didn’t deserve it’: emotional Erin Patterson tells murder trial of shame over messages about family

Murder accused also tells jury she was never diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had history of ‘consulting Dr Google’Erin Patterson trial LIVEWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has told a court she wishes she never told her Facebook friends in a private group chat “this family I swear to fucking god” in relation to her in-laws, saying she felt ashamed but hoped that sharing her frustrations would mean she had a “big cheer squad” for her problems.Patterson also told the jury in her triple murder trial that she was never diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had a history of “consulting Dr Google”, and hoped to bring her family back together despite a formal separation with her estranged husband, Simon, seven years earlier. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Aberdeen medic with family history of cardiac issues aims to equip city with defibrillators

Lee Findlay's Aberdeen Defibrillator Project aims to provide defibrillators to public spaces around the city.

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2 w. ago The Welsh rugby agent uncovering hidden gems around the world including new Wales star

The former hooker thinks outside the box to find diamonds in the rough across the globe

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3 w. ago Best ancestry DNA tests for exploring your family history, tried and tested

Use a DNA kit to fill out the branches on your tree or discover more about your heritage and genetic make-up

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3 w. ago Pop Idol star makes same British royal discovery as Danny Dyer after nine years

Another famous face delves into their family history on Who Do You Think You Are? and the results are shocking

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3 w. ago Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial LIVE updates: Erin Patterson's daughter's cancer scare is revealed as mushroom murder trial hears details about family's medical history

Follow Daily Mail Australia's live coverage of accused mushroom chef Erin Patterson's murder trial here.

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3 w. ago Skunk Anansie: The Painful Truth review – a raw triumph of reinvention and resilience

(FLG)On their first LP in almost a decade, made as two members were treated for cancer, the rockers shrug off their 90s heyday with an experimental mindsetAlmost 30 years after Weak gave the London band a global smash, Skunk Anansie’s “painful truth” is facing up to middle age, parenthood, the loss of a longstanding manager, fears that their best days were behind them and two members being diagnosed with cancer. Recorded with drummer Mark Richardson in recovery and bassist Cass undergoing chemotherapy, their first album in nine years confronts such issues with candour and defiance. Opener An Artist Is an Artist stridently lays down the manifesto: over an infectious collision of electro-pop and post-punk, singer Skin insists that a true creative will not be denied by ageing or menopause. The vocalist subsequently addresses challenges ranging from the hedonistic rock lifestyle to her own family history.Musically, producer David Sitek of TV on the Radio has urged them to throw off the ...

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4 w. ago Heartbroken Fred Sirieix in floods of tears as he makes shock family discovery

First Dates star Fred Sirieix has an emotional time on BBC 1 hit series as the Who Do You Think You Are? team explain his family history and make some heartbreaking discoveries

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