A DEDICATION service was held to honour the lives of two West Cumbrian soldiers. The service took place at St Mary's Church in Cleator Moor in memory of two World War One soldiers. Corporal John James ...

The Ardee WW1 Commemoration took place last Sunday 8 November at 11am at the Fair Green in Ardee. The monument at the Fair ...

Poems by a Cumbrian soldier killed in action in the First World War have been saved and are being celebrated in a new book.

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She had, indeed, in a sense, three brothers in the Confederacy, but they were half-brothers, with whom she had had little to do, and anyway the Civil War was notoriously a great divider of the border ...

Kanika Ambrose’s portrait of what it means to exist as a Black man in 1958 never quite reaches its full, elemental potential ...

Translated by Bae Dong-keun | Arte | 704 pages | 45,000 Korean won In 1933, Nazi party members and students threw books into ...

Paul Kingsnorth argues technology is killing us - physically and spiritually.

This week brings new releases from Joy Williams, Simon Winchester and Tracy K. Smith, among other talented writers.

Last week, as commercials promoting a new Sting album showed us a much younger Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner singing, “I hope ...

The Danish author Solvej Balle’s experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders ...