John Lennon and World War I poet Wilfred Owen were among 15 famous figures to be honoured with the Blue Plaques when they were unveiled in 1999. Other notable figures were toymaker Frank Hornby, trade ...

This year’s Aldeburgh Festival – the 76th – takes as its motto a line from Shelley‘s Prometheus Unbound. The poet speaks of ...

The car had been having starting trouble, and the young mechanic assigned to it was making heavy weather of it.Eventually, Stein deemed his efforts unsatisfactory and complained to his boss, who ...

or an alternative anthem for doomed youth (and beyond), to borrow from Wilfred Owen. It leaves the audience bloodied but unbowed as Morrissey takes us into the visceral gut punch that is Irish ...

It seems amazing that this is the first major biography for almost thirty years of the man who gave definitive expression to the English experience of the First World War. It is, in fact, only the ...

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As a founding member of the AEW roster and a former World Champion, Page is no stranger to holding gold, but this year his path to victory in the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament (culminating in a ...

On Aug. 9, 1969, the 8-months-pregnant Tate and her friends — Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski — were at ...