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Tobias Jones wrote his latest novel using sixteenth-century English. The 1549 ‘Prayer Book Rebellion’ was a revolt against the imposition…
Visiting the Bethlem Royal Hospital archives allowed Miranda Miller to enter into the world of a nineteenth-century asylum. The artist…
Jan Marsh looks into the murkier depths of historical non-fiction. Jan Marsh came to believe she had discovered the real-life…
Christie Dickason explores the deep connections between humans and animals — and the consequences of loss. As humans, we see…
Chris Simms mourns a vanishing form of public writing. ‘Sharp comments in everyday settings’ is how Chris Simms defines graffiti.…
Rupert Christiansen picks through literary classics that narrowly avoided being consigned to the living death of non-publication. Every writer has…
Ian Thomson sails to Estonia in search of his mother’s Soviet childhood. Ian Thomson’s mother and her best friend both…
Clare Colvin explores the hidden rooms that have inspired historical novels. The strange, diminutive ‘dwarf’s apartment’ in Mantua’s Ducal Palace…
Jane Corry reflects on her time ‘inside’, as writer-in-residence at a high-security prison. Prison changes you, it is said. It…
Catherine Czerkawska investigates Robert Burns’s artistic debt to his often-overlooked wife, Jean Armour. Robert Burns is better known for his…
The voices of enslaved people are almost entirely lost to history. Bristolian novelist Sanjida O’Connell seeks to fill that terrible…
Imogen Lycett Green, curator of the Betjeman Poetry Prize, asks what poetry prizes can do for children. Her grandfather was…
