CULTURE

‘The murders were turned into fiction’: How the 19th-Century tabloid press created the mythology of Jack the Ripper

In short, argued Frayling, anyone trying to find out Jack the Ripper's identity might have been looking in the wrong…

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‘It stopped me quitting acting’: Renate Reinsve on her life-changing role in The Worst Person in the World

Julie was even more special, Reinsve says, because Trier, who she had previously worked with on 2011's Oslo, August 31st,…

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‘An icon of Soviet space exploration’: The Russian stray dog that beat humans into orbit

After the successful Sputnik I launch on 4 October 1957, which sent the world's first man-made satellite into orbit, Soviet…

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‘A way of celebrating presence’: What Botero’s rotund remakes of classical masterpieces tell us about art history

For Botero, exaggerating objects and figures was "a way of celebrating the presence of things," Herrera Ottino says, adding that…

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‘Condemned as unnatural’: 10 images of 19th-Century Parisian women who lived and dressed as men

While feminised versions of male styles were socially acceptable, wearing male clothing was not. This famously did not stop George…

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The duchess charged with treason and witchcraft

Was 15th-Century 'royal witch' Eleanor Cobham a satanist or a political pawn? Source link

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A husband made from a basket? Why women are going wild for freaky film romance Wicker

The husband-and-wife film-making team behind Wicker, Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, tell the BBC they have been tickled by…

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‘They handled it exactly the right way’: How the Kennedys averted the 1962 Cuban missile crisis

The cabinet was divided over what action to take, with further U-2 flights revealing that the missile bases were nearing…

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‘More audacious than her male peers’: The Renaissance woman who was the first female painter of erotic nudes

The theme had been adapted by various male artists, including Giorgione, Titian and Veronese. But these artists "had not dared…

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Nine images capturing 100 years of Bel-Air

From a 'gentlemen's haven' to film-star refuge and high-end, low-profile enclave Source link

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