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The UK housing crisis is part of wider asset transfer from the state to the rich, writes Will Self
The writer on why the historic area makes her feel like a time traveller
Ralph Fiennes directs a laudable Charles Dickens biopic about the author’s affair with an 18-year-old actress
Globalisation’s great prosperity sits beside the risks that accompany the passing of an old order
Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in an account of Dickens’ secret love
His incarnations of evil – from sadistic Nazi officer to Voldemort – have made him one of Britain’s most celebrated film actors
Golden-age writers offer enduring insights on unfairness, writes John Sutherland
The Victorian novelist gets the Reduced Shakespeare treatment, including a 30-second ‘Bleak House’
The stories behind the blue plaques commemorating famous Londoners
The strongest defenders of Britain as a bastion of home ownership are politicians
Steven Pinker argues that we are in an era of unprecedented peace and civility. Here he considers books that have helped bring this about
Dickens’ abundance and Orwell’s asperity are equally inspiring
Aside from crafting great literature, Charles Dickens dedicated some of his time and creativity to designing his homes in meticulous detail
A contemporary tale of two cities and a common sense restructuring
Through his photographs of derelict barges, Michael Collins explores the rich industrial past of the Medway
Book lovers are racing to learn more about business
Most people don’t own an abbey but are fiercely defensive of what they possess
One principle and one fact are central to re-regulation debate
The outsider and self-promoter was no one’s stereotype of an Englishman
This tribute to Mr Punch – and vaudeville theatre – is an ingenious mix of the farcical and the macabre
A destitute but intelligent crippled girl becomes infamous in ‘Little Bones’, a Janette Jenkins tale set in late Victorian London
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