The thieves struck just before ten on Saturday evening, while Messina’s streets were still thrumming with the Processione della Vara. By the time the religious…
In the annals of historical writing, few events have invited as many retellings as the fall of Maximilien Robespierre on 9 Thermidor Year II –…
By Alexander Stone Founded in 1958 at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios, the Radiophonic Workshop existed to supply British broadcasting with custom sound effects and…
By Lana Sterling Barbara Hepworth transformed British sculpture by piercing solid forms and letting Cornish light flood through them. Settling in St Ives in 1939,…
While the Fringe fills the Royal Mile with flyers, the Edinburgh International Festival runs alongside it from 7 to 30 August doing something almost opposite.…
By Sara Bright The National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun and opened in 1976 on London’s South Bank, embodies postwar Britain’s commitment to public culture…
Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film Don’t Look Now adapts a short story by Daphne du Maurier into something far more fractured and emotionally destabilising than its…
The Internet Archive lent scanned books like a library and lost. What the Hachette ruling settled, what it left open, and why the fight moved…
A New York court ordered Anna's Archive to pay $19.5m and told registries worldwide to disable its domains. The site kept indexing. Why book piracy…
By Alexander Stone Harry Beck’s 1931 London Underground diagram revolutionized information design by prioritizing clarity over geographical accuracy. His radical shift to a circuit-board aesthetic,…