28 h. ago The Titanic's real Jack pining for his 'Rose': Incredible letter reveals tragic third class passenger had a 'good cry' over lost love on doomed vessel before perishing in 1912 disaster

According to a never-before-seen letter, third class passenger Ernest Tomlin had seemingly been left heartbroken by the break-up of a relationship with a woman called Rose.

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29 h. ago The Titanic's real Jack pining for his 'Rose': Incredible letter reveals tragic third class passenger had a 'good cry' over lost love from doomed vessel before perishing in 1912 disaster

According to a never-before-seen letter, third class passenger Ernest Tomlin had seemingly been left heartbroken by the break-up of a relationship with a woman called Rose.

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5 d. ago FTSE 100 LIVE: London slides and UK gilts sell as Reeves spooks market with tax U

FTSE 100 LIVE: London slides and UK gilts sell as Reeves spooks market with tax U-turn  Yahoo Finance UK

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6 d. ago Titanic gold pocket watch recovered from body of one of its richest passengers is set to fetch £1m

Isidor Straus and his wife Ida were immortalised in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster movie as the elderly couple holding each other on their bed as the Titanic sank.

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7 d. ago Drive like royalty! Bentley used to chauffeur King Charles is set to sell at auction for £100,000

The 2013 Bentley Mulsanne, used by the Monarch for multiple official engagements when he was the Prince of Wales, is predicted to fetch between £80,000 to £100,000

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7 d. ago Drive like royalty! Bentley used to chauffeur King Charles is set to sell at auction for £100,000

The 2013 Bentley Mulsanne, used by the Monarch for multiple official engagements when he was the Prince of Wales, is predicted to fetch between £80,000 to £100,000

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8 d. ago ‘Wes Anderson: The Archives’ Retrospective Exhibition Set for The Design Museum in London

‘Wes Anderson: The Archives’ Retrospective Exhibition Set for The Design Museum in London  Deadline

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1 week ago Footsie hits new record high as investors brush off fears AI bubble will burst

After a nervy morning following a heavy sell-off on Wall Street on Tuesday, the FTSE 100 closed 0.6 per cent higher at 9777.08 on Wednesday.

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2 w. ago ‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst

Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and their literary tastes reflect our timesThe sales patterns for classic novels are normally a fairly predictable business. “Every year it’s the same authors,” says Jessica Harrison, publishing director for Penguin Classics UK. “Austen is always at the very top, and then all the school ones: Orwell, An Inspector Calls, Of Mice and Men, Jane Eyre.”But last year it was different. Penguin’s bestselling classic by far was a little-known novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. White Nights sold more than 100,000 copies in the UK in 2024. It is an angsty story of impossible love, run through with characteristic Dostoevskian gloom. A young man and woman meet on a bridge in St Petersburg on consecutive nights: his love for her is unrequited; she is despairing because the man she really love...

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3 w. ago Titanic passenger’s archive set to sell for more than £100,000

Among the items included in the sale is the only first class passenger list from the stricken liner to have survived.

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