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Fairy Tales Uncensored: Grim Grimm Stories

No matter where you go, stories of the Brothers Grimm seem to be everywhere, be it the latest...

Chinese New Year 2015: The Year of the Sheep (Part 1)

As the Chinese say goodbye to the Year of the Horse, we look at some interesting facts to prepare...

Pantone Colour of the year 2015: Marsala

Pantone describe Marsala as ‘naturally robust and earthy wine red.’ Click through to...

The Reel East-Enders

Next month Britain’s favourite TV soap, Eastenders, turns 30. Love or loath it, this...

New Year Resolutions not to Break

It’s that time of year to think up resolutions for 2016. (Well, at least for the first couple of...

The Christmas Truce of 1914

‘Stille Nacht. Heilige Nacht. Alles schläft, einsam wacht’. Just after dawn on a cold Christmas...

Secret Santa: All I Want For Christmas… from Bridgeman

Stuck on fresh ideas for those tricky relatives, high-maintenance best friend or significant...

No ordinary love: 200 years of Sade

Confined to the mental asylum of Charenton, Sade wrote his last will and testament on 30 January...

What are your chances of being punished by the Krampus this Christmas?

Festive tradition or Bah Humbug? The Krampus is a mythological creature that appears in Alpine...

Walls of Water: Maggi Hambling

The National Gallery celebrated the return of Maggi Hambling CBE, its first Artist in Residence...

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