CULTURE

The homes revealing how Tudor people really lived

"There is an appeal to the simplicity of 16th-Century interiors and an honesty in the materials used," says interior and…

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Research shows older women are winning more Oscars – here’s why

The most recent study from Annenberg also found that from Hollywood's top 100 films last year, there were only four…

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How the Eagles’ Greatest Hits broke the US charts

According to biographer Marc Eliot, in To The Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles, the push to release a…

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How Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech launched the Cold War 80 years ago

Churchill reminded people how he had warned in the 1930s against the appeasement of Hitler and Nazi Germany but "no…

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‘It caused so much upset’: Why Tracey Emin’s messy bed shocked the art world in the ’90s

In 1999, an artwork of a dishevelled divan strewn with condoms and lager cans sparked a media frenzy and turned…

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12 of the best TV shows to watch this March

The Comeback premieres 22 March on HBO and Max in the USAmazon Prime Video(Credit: Amazon Prime Video)11. BaitRiz Ahmed has…

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11 of the Winter Olympics’ most striking images

7. Mass and motionGetty ImagesTransformed by a photographer's lens into smudgy speed lines accelerating behind the carefully calibrated push of…

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Why critics scorned Beryl Cook’s ‘saucy’ paintings

Jolly, kitsch and bawdy, Beryl Cook's paintings were loved by the British public but derided by the art establishment. One…

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A moving, tragic biopic of a tortured jazz great ★★★★☆

Bill Evans was a boundary-breaking US pianist who contended with multiple personal tragedies, and a serious drug problem. This new…

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The Addams Family to St Elmo’s Fire: 12 of the best alternative romantic films

AlamyJulie & Julia (2009)Nora Ephron wrote When Harry Met Sally and she wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle, so you…

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