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The Spectator

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Why a poem outraged 1980s Britain

Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds. Then, when it was...

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The wild story of London's all-women criminal gang

The all-female Forty Elephants lived by their own shoplifting and pickpocketing code. Now a new Disney series from the creator of Peaky Blinders...

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The mystery of why Jane Austen's letters were destroyed

Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's in part because of an act that...

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BBC

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