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The
secret world under the noses of the Nazis
The most famous attempt
by Jews to resist the Nazis in armed fighting occurred in the
Warsaw ghetto, writes David Rosenberg
JUST weeks before the Nazi army burnt the Warsaw Ghetto
to a cinder, and flushed out the last heroic resisters an...
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The
House that Wren never really lived in
Gillian Tindall’s brilliant
eye for detail is what makes the history of 49 Bankside so fascinating,
writes Jonathan Fryer
Taking a Sunday afternoon stroll along Bankside, on the
southern bank of the Thames opposite St Paul’s Cathedral,
one could easily... >
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The
nation's favourite from the mantelpiece - OUR modern governments
can be just as treacherous as the Cambridge spies were, Britain’s
favourite playwright... >
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From
Pointless Park to Karl Marx Square - THERE’S an evocative
scene in Alexei Sayle’s new book when one of the main characters,
Harriet, goes to a gym called... >
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Science
essays to dispel myth of common sense - SCIENCE can
be difficult for non-scientists as the world is not built on
common-sense principles. >
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The
mystery of Equiano - EVERYBODY who is familiar with the
brilliant 18th-century memoir: The Interesting Narrative of
Olaudah Equiano... >
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Samuel
Beckett gave the world everything he had - SAMUEL Beckett
was born in a significant year, that of the great Liberal Party
landslide which signalled... >
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Iqbal's
travels: A dream of England shattered - AN Imperial hangover
is still with us: but its effects are only noticeable if you
know where to look. For Hampstead-based... >
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Dame
Shirley and the subversion of democracy - WE all have good
and bad years but 1991 was the beginning of the end for... >
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Edna's
political life with Denis - DENIS Healey, ebullient as ever,
sat at the piano in the Hampstead Community Centre. “Roll
out the barrel, We’ll have a... >
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Things
to make you go coup! - ON page 137 of Edna Healey’s
smug autobiography she recalls phone calls from her friend Anne
the wife of Cecil King. >
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The
man behind the map - THE sprawl of the city was proving
hard to negotiate for art student Ken Garland. It was the mid-1950s:
he had moved to London from... >
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Idealised
and idolised: The navvies who built London - THE pregnancy
was not planned, but was hardly a surprise: the artist Ford
Madox Brown had fallen in love with... >
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Good
housing for all: Where did we go so wrong? - OVER the last
three decades Britain’s housing policy has been a unique
national disaster. Good housing... >
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A
butcher's hook at a trade fast dying out - THERE was a silver
lining for butcher delivery boy Desmond Whyman. >
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Undoubtedly
Matisse - ON his deathbed half a century ago, Henri Matisse
didn’t make some significant statement about a life packed
with humiliation... >
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The
Nazi sympathies of England's voice - HV Morton was covered
in sweat. He had a raging temperature and a neck that was so
stiff he... >
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Wanda's
odes to love and passion - AT the age of 75, the poet Wanda
Barford has written a series of love sonnets that move, delight
and stir the blood. >
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Elaine,
84, proves it's never too late to write - WHEN novelist
Fay Weldon read the first draft chapters of Elaine Bass’s
bizarre story about her marriage to a man... >
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Rambling
good times of a true jazz lover - SEVEN years ago, Alan
Plater wrote a love-letter to the jazz great Duke Ellington.
The great man had been dead a long...>
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The
greatest historian ever, and still a radical - PROFESSOR
Eric Hobsbawm, the famously “unrepentant communist”,
is now 88 years old. He is a little... >
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Actor
Henry's love for 'the Jewish Dickens' - Henry Goodman brings
the words of Victorian novelist Israel Zangwill to life, writes
Jane Wright. >
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Cooking
with Claudia to give peace a chance - Cookery guru Claudia
Roden wants to bring about peace in the Middle East through
good food, writes Ruth Gorb. >
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That's
entertainment! - The music halls were pioneers of mass entertainment
long before cinema and TV, writes Amanda Sebestyen. >
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One day in the life of Alan the actor - Brad Pitt could
not understand one word Cockney actor Alan Ford was saying during
the filming of Guy Ritchie's Snatch...>
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Two
views on a Spurs great - Bill Nicholson made Spurs one of
the most exciting clubs to watch with his drive for fast-flowing
football, writes Dan Carrier... more
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Doctor
in search of emotional answers - From apartheid
South Africa to medical anthropology and poetry, Cecil Helman’s
tales offer an engaging insight into the healing art, writes
Sunita Rappai...more
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Phillips
claims rappers are modern minstrels - Novelist
Caryl Phillips tells of a ridiculed black minstrel and draws
parallels with today's pigeon-holed performers... more
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The
Shakespeare players - Peter Ackroyd takes us into
the dirt of Shakespeare’s London and gets to grips with
the playwright’s genius, writes Illtyd Harrington... more
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Almost
every street has a gruesome story to tell -
Numerous filthy murders
committed in north London during the last four centuries have
gone undetected. Dan Carrier investigates.. more
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Always judge a book by
its classic design cover - Design
cognoscenti have always valued the Penguin aesthetic; book-lovers
have always cherished their dog-eared Penguin paperbacks....
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If
the whole world’s a stage, this is the atlas
- It’s a shame that such a readable examination of the
stage should be restricted to the world of actors, writes
Chris Larkin. A great actor, my father,
once told me... more
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