A Thousand Blows is based on the true story of the Forty Elephants, and Mary Carr's history may provide a glimpse at the ...

As shown in the Stephen Graham boxing drama, the Forty Elephants shoplifted from Harrods, blackmailed MPs – and died utterly ...

So when a new example of the genre (a dual biography by dual biographers, no less) sums up the story in six introductory ...

"Salome," a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its provocative depiction of a teenage girl whose lust for a man quickly morphs into bloodlust ...

Transgressive 90s icons, the art of window displays, Carnival Casanovas and a new Disney+ series about an infamous group of ...

It was simply a modest Southampton farmhouse in the early 18th century, a "romantic cottage" on the highest point of the west bank of ...

What weight should be given to the role of ideas in moments of radical change, as opposed to that of material interests and forces? From the Reformation to the Enlightenment, rise of Marxism and ...

The minimum age for leaving school in Scotland should be lowered from 16 to 14, according to plans being proposed by the ...

This was my first day in prison at Long Bay Gaol, a slice of Victorian-era penal architecture with high walls topped ... escalating prisoner numbers – male and female. The numbers of women sent to ...

By the time George Cecil Ives (1867–1950) met Oscar Wilde at the prestigious Authors’ Club in London in 1892, he was deeply ...