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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 architectural designer Guy Goodfellow. “This

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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 women aged 45 plus who

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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 “best of” came from incoming

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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 one would listen and one

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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 artist Tracey Emin into a

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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 US Amazon Prime Video(Credit: Amazon Prime Video) 11. Bait Riz Ahmed has made his

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11 of the Winter Olympics’ most striking images

7. Mass and motion Getty Images Transformed by a photographer’s lens into smudgy speed lines accelerating behind the carefully calibrated push of her polished curling

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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 hundred years after her birth,

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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 drama about him will draw

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

Alamy Julie & Julia (2009) Nora Ephron wrote When Harry Met Sally and she wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle, so you might not think