By Sara Bright On 27 November 2024, a 26-year-old Cambridge researcher posted a photograph of herself holding a red-bound thesis. “Thrilled to say I passed…
By Sara Bright By Sara Bright When Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor premiered in American cinemas on 25 September 1975, Robert Redford’s bookish…
By Sara Bright In a city that once spun more cotton than anywhere else on earth, the threads have not gone silent. They have simply…
By Sara Bright Sixteen years ago, a single policy decision set about dismantling one of the most vibrant strands of English state education. The English…
By Sara Bright A School That Outlived Bombs, Centuries, and Its Own Demolition There is a particular quality to institutions that have survived their own…
By Sara Bright What is one of the earliest subjects in art – as well one of the most censored? The breast. First carved onto…
By Sara Bright In a candlelit room at Sennowe Park, the Edwardian country house in Norfolk that has been home to the Temple-Richards family for…
By Sara Bright When Battersea Power Station reopened on 14 October 2022, it ended nearly four decades of dereliction, failed schemes, and engineering dread. The…
By Sara Bright Something strange happens in the early weeks of a new attraction. You are drawn to someone, perhaps even infatuated, and then –…
By Sara Bright On 3 March 1982, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Barbican Centre and called it “one of the wonders of the modern world.”…