The Personal History Of David Copperfield Cert: PG, 1hr 59mins Rating: As nomination season for the big film awards comes to a close, it is clear there are both winners – basically Joker, 1917, The Irishman and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood – and losers. Unfortunately, Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History … Read more
When Kent was the Klondike of coal: This intriguing slice of social history, filled with personal testimony from ex-miners and their families, is a well-written reminder Author Peter Williams explores the history industrial heartland the Kent Coalfield Miners arrived from all over Britain to work but weren’t greeted with enthusiasm The Kent Coalfield flourished through WWII but … Read more
NATURE THE TULIP by Anna Pavord (Bloomsbury £40, 467 pp) Who doesn’t love tulips? Colourful, flamboyant, easy to grow and cheap as chips, they are the perfect plant to brighten up a spring garden. Yet these cheery flowers have an unexpectedly dark and complex history. The tulip has had ‘more adventures than any Hollywood scriptwriter … Read more
Who’d have thought that a student show about Henry VIII’s wives would become a global megahit? The two friends who created Six certainly didn’t – and, as they tell Julia Llewellyn Smith, they’re still trying not to lose their heads Welcome to Six, the musical that’s taken the West End – and now the globe – … Read more
Since James Bond first burst on to our cinema screens in 1962’s Dr No, blazing his Walther PPK and seducing every beautiful woman he came across, there have been 23 more official Bond films, with six actors playing 007. Daniel Craig’s final turn as the special agent in No Time To Die, the 25th Bond … Read more
Annie Gray’s delicious Victory In The Kitchen, a biography of Georgina Landemare, Winston Churchill’s cook, is ‘popular history at its very best’ By Kathryn Hughes Published: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 16:53 GMT, 26 February 2020 Victory In The Kitchen: The Life Of Churchill’s Cook Annie Gray … Read more
Animal magic! Ohio Zoo makes history with the world’s FIRST cheetah cubs born through IVF using a surrogate in a bid to help save the declining species Two cubs were born in on Feb. 19th through in vitro fertilization in Ohio The team inseminated a cheetah that is younger than than the biological mom Both … Read more
How Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds made history as first unmarried couple to live together in Downing Street Boris Johnson, 55, and Carrie Symonds, 31, have announced their engagement Couple have also revealed they are expecting a baby together in early summer They had made history as first unmarried couple to move into Downing Street By … Read more
U.S. stock indexes plunged dramatically yet again on Thursday, as the rapid spread of the coronavirus outside China deepens investor worries about growth and corporate earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 1,190.95 points, or 4.42 percent, to 25,766.64, the largest one-day point drop in history. It comes during the quickest market plunge on a percentage … Read more