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Each year in November, the poppy appears on coats across the country. It's a symbol as old as any of us, but where did it ...

Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful ...

Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...

Jacob’s early scholarship focused on the Nibelungenlied; Schmiesing argues that his fascination with the epic poem stemmed ...

With Donald Trump taking legal advice on how to retain a US base on the Chagos Islands, Tom Marshall reviews a new book by ...

Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ invites audiences into a visually spectacular sci-fi realm that delves into the origins of ...

In ‘Matchstick Men,’ Ridley Scott delivers a clever and engaging con artist film with a standout performance by Nicolas Cage.

Lyrically and thematically, Powerslave saw them travelling from ancient Egypt to the very end of the 20th century and ...