The last thing the eyeball of Edward Oldcorne would have seen was the executioner walking to disembowel him.
World Spirit Forum theatre group Glasgow’s World Spirit Forum theatre group is seeking new members for an anti-racism project in schools. Its community theatre explores "integration" and the asylum process from the perspective of those experiencing it directly.
I read J K Rowling’s Harry Potter books when I was 13 years old and found them gripping.
The late 1970s saw an explosion in DIY punk culture. Musicians, artists and writers produced flyers, posters, record sleeves and fanzines using photocopiers, collage and stencils.
Rock Against Racism/Love Music Hate Racism This exhibition brings together iconic posters, badges and memorabilia from more than three decades of music and anti-racism. The posters show a wide variety of design and capture the excitement and urgency of the fight against fascism.
As I was going to watch a romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator in the Victorian era, I imagined Bridget Jones’ Diary in 1880. But it was even worse.
BBC One’s new eight-part series of Émile Zola’s classic novel, The Ladies’ Paradise, made a promising start last Tuesday. Set in the 1870s it follows Denise, who takes a job in a fashionable department store.
With 400 works from 12 photographers of the 1960s and 70s, this exhibition aims to tell "a history of photography through the photography of history".
The Long March to Equality This exhibition celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Women’s Library being at its purpose-built London home.
Cities in a state of tension, driven mad by nightmares in the run-up to some great catastrophe, are one of the defining motifs of China Miéville’s fiction.
A film adaptation of Beat writer Jack Kerouac’s best-known novel, On the Road charts the journeys of a group of young people as they try, or pretend, to grow up.
Everything Was Moving This exhibition at the Barbican in London covers a period of immense political upheaval. It offers inspiring images captured by a range of renowned photographers from across the globe. It brings together over 400 works, many rarely seen and a number of them never seen before in Britain.
