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Into Great Silence
Exploring the meaning of Philip Gröning's extraordinary film, twenty years on
Nov 13
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Mathew Lyons
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The acid-tongued ambassadress
The indomitable Lady Walburga Paget, our woman at the nineteenth-century courts of imperial Europe
Nov 6
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Mathew Lyons
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Louis MacNeice and Autumn Journal
One of the 20th century's great history poems – and a joyous confession of faith in everyday life
Oct 8
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Mathew Lyons
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4
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Remembering Richard Tarlton
The forgotten life of the Elizabethan theatre's greatest star
Sep 4
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Mathew Lyons
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Re-imagining Elizabethan London
In search of the invisible city
Aug 28
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Mathew Lyons
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Ladders of escape: Joan Miró’s bizarre love triangle
A calm walk through the charged landscapes of 'Dog Barking at the Moon'
Aug 1
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Mathew Lyons
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First thoughts on Tom Lehrer
For Engelsberg Ideas: what does the death of a long-retired comedic titan tell us about his art
Jul 30
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Mathew Lyons
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Thomas Coryat: the first great English travel writer
From London to the Mughal court on foot (1608–16) – via Paris, the Alps, Venice, Xante, Troy, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Damascus and more
Jul 25
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Mathew Lyons
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Thomas Kyd: fragments of a life
Searching for the ghost of one of Elizabethan England's first great playwrights
Jul 18
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Mathew Lyons
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A joy for life: the gaudy, brilliant world of Damon Runyon
Runyon, my father and me
Jul 9
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Mathew Lyons
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Hosannas and hatchet jobs
The how and why of the reviews I write: pitching for commissions, the process of reading and writing, and the rules I try to stick to along the way
Jul 4
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Mathew Lyons
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Domingos Sequeira and his greenish friends
Why I fell in love with a painting in Lisbon's National Museum of Ancient Art
Jun 27
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Mathew Lyons
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