A unique depiction of military lifeNow Boots shines a spotlight on the courage and resilience of service members, who sublimated an integral part of their identity in order to serve. Created by Andy Parker, whose previous credits include Netflix's adaptation...
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)Blackhouse thatched cottage in the Hebrides, ScotlandMany thatched cottages in the Hebrides are simple, single-storey structures called blackhouses or taigh-dubh (their name in Gaelic). The term blackhouse probably derives from the fact that these cottages originally had no windows....
Stewart continues: "This was another means of smoothing national sensibilities by ensuring that the precedence given to the Irish saltire – because it lay over the Scottish saltire – was balanced by the Scottish saltire having precedence in the more...
Miller's headstrong creativity is evoked by her wry quotes; she once explained of her work: "It was a matter of getting out on a damn limb, and sawing it off behind you." The urgency, audaciousness, and unexpected compassion that defines...
Getty ImagesCooper's books have been bestsellers since the 1980s (Credit: Getty Images)Daisy Buchanan, author of books including Insatiable and Limelight, host of the You're Booked podcast and Jilly Cooper superfan, first discovered the writer as a teenager. "I think I...
The most famous image appeared in 1934 at the height of Nessie-mania: a slender, serpent-like neck rising from the loch. For decades, the photo baffled Nessieologists. In 1979, Californian naturalist Dennis Power suggested the "monster" it depicted was an elephant...
Zuckerberg may have a point, but it's hardly the first time that a film has twisted the truth for dramatic and thematic purposes. "As a historian and someone who believes very strongly in media literacy, I always approach and encourage...
"The idea started as a concept after watching Poltergeist for probably the 100th time," Leonberg tells BBC Culture. "In the opening of that film, the family's dog clearly senses the presence of the ghost before anyone else. That trope of...
Released on 24 October in the US and Canada, and internationally from 30 OctoberDisneySpringsteen: Deliver Me from NowhereAre we moving on from the era when pop music biopics such as Ray, Walk the Line and Elvis would squeeze decades of...
Less than a year earlier, Teresa Gullace, a six-month-pregnant mother of five had been shot in Rome by a Nazi soldier after she waved at her captive husband. In the film, Francesco shouts "Teresa", as an homage. At the time,...
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