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How the English soul was forged – and how it’s ebbing away
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAs a young Catholic in working-class west London in the 1950s, Peter Ackroyd wanted more than...
David Bowie developed football obsession during 2002 World Cup
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 week agoDavid Bowie in 2002 - the year he became temporarily obsessed with football - FRANCK FIFE David...
Sacred Mysteries: Hawksmoor’s magnificent six
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoA bonus in David Meara’s new book Terror and Magnificence, on Hawsksmoor’s London churches, is a picture of St John Horsleydown. Most people have never...
I discovered communist London on a literary walking tour
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoIn The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, a cornerstone of British espionage is in a pornographer’s...
Ofcom Chairman Michael Grade: I left boarding school after anti-Semitic abuse
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoI started at a boarding school in Bournemouth aged seven, but the school closed down and I had to...
Forget the bucket list, Telegraph writers reveal what is on their ‘f---it’ list
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLong have we known of the Bucket List – that inexhaustible scroll of things that one simply must...
The man who represented the biggest stars of the 70s, 80s and 90s – and got fired by Elton John
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 week agoIn 1976, Alan Edwards, then 21 years old and working as a PR looking after rock bands, organised a...
Wilkie Collins at 200: What Agatha Christie and Mick Herron owe to the inventor of detective fiction
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMany years ago, I was in crisis. As a result of university, I had come to hate reading, an...