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Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readersA new tool to quickly identify books that are poisonous to humans has been developed by the University of St Andrews.Historically, p...
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Ahead of Refugee Week, we round up entertaining stories, poems and nonfiction to help children of all ages learn about refugees and gain understandingWant your kids to have a better understanding of people seeking sanctuary? Ahead of Refugee Week this month the team behin...
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The author’s conceptual agility is on display in these short stories surveying the trauma of conflict and the challenges of survivalThere are several wars, not all of them military ones, in these deftly turned stories from Booker winner Graham Swift. With&nbs...
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My former tutor, friend and colleague Gerard Wilson, who has died aged 81, quietly but profoundly reshaped British sculpture education, which had been bound by patriarchal traditions and narrow definitions of artistic value.As a lecturer at Br...
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Twenty years ago, a group of Scandinavian chefs announced a culinary revolution. But as Norway’s National museum celebrates the New Nordic manifesto’s impact on dining and the arts, has the movement betrayed its own ambitious ideals?When is gastronomy about more than just...
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Rachel Reeves’ £113bn capital spending plan masks tough choices and cabinet rows over squeezed budgetsWhen Rachel Reeves publishes the governmen...
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Exclusive: Letter from six top figures says more walkouts by junior colleagues would help those who oppose the NHSLetter: Resid...
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Exclusive: Council has been asked to submit plans for the same funding or a cut of 2% ahead of spending reviewMinisters have asked the British Council to draw up spending plans that would force it to close in as many as 60 countries, sources have told the Guardian, in the...
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Giving lunch to more pupils is a good move – but poor nutrition points to deeper problems that ministers must faceIt was Ellen Wilkinson, education minister in the Attlee government, who ...
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Labour has so far struggled to explain its purpose and the need to do so will be all the more pressing if it raises taxes againRachel Reeves hopes to use Wednesday’s spending review to tell a long-overdue story about Labour’s purpose in power that looks beyond fixing the ...