Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land
Seventy years ago the Empress Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in Essex, carrying hundreds of Caribbean migrants to Britain. Marking this significant anniversary, the British Library is staging a new ...
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Full steam ahead at Riverside Museum
Riverside Museum is Scotland’s museum of travel and transport and is renowned for its world-class ship model collection. A new display exploring more than 200 years of Glasgow’s train building heritag ...
Rupert Everett’s labour of love completes his life of Wilde
Joyce Glasser reviews The Happy Prince (June 15, 2018) Cert. 15, 105 min. Actor Rupert Everett’s great interest in Oscar Wilde is both professional and personal, with, you can’t but think, a ‘th ...
Splendours of the Subcontinent: Four Centuries of South Asian Paintings and Manuscripts
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace (8 June – 14 October, 2018) The Royal Collection contains one of the finest groups of South Asian paintings and manuscripts in the world, held in the Royal ...