In the heart of the Lake District, Esthwaite Water was eulogised by poet William Wordsworth and was described by author ...

Producing or directing, he made more than 50 films over 50 years, including a series on the English language and an ...

The apology by the two distinguished Leaders of Uganda, is an admission that they are responsible for having technically ...

Innovations in literary writing have long been integral to the evolution of literature, with figures such as William Shakespeare revolutionizing the stage through inventive dramaturgy and poetic ...

Solitude was a Romantic ideal. What separates it from loneliness? Alberti explores the two ideas through the lives and work ...

As part of our Wknd special, we talk to modern historian Fay Bound Alberti, author of A Biography of Loneliness. So what does ...

I hoard words, phrases, quotations and bits and pieces of information that interests me thinking I will use them in a column or story. When the file gets full to bursting I can’t just delete them, so ...

Leave your phone in your pocket and spend time actually seeing the work. The more time you devote to looking, the better the ...

In my earliest years, I awaited each playdate with barely restrained impatience, eager to climb monkey bars, roller-skate, or ...

As the tide slips away, the sands of Barmouth beach in Gwynedd reveal a haunting spectacle: the ghostly skeleton of an old ...

Low tides have revealed the ghostly remnants of a railway line running across a beach as if heading out to sea. In recent ...

The term 'stoner album' has been coined on the premise that music sounds more immersive when you're stoned. But is there any truth to it?