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London's most haunted venues

20.10.09
From sinister squares to pubs with poltergeists, we discover where you should hunt for a ghoul or a ghost this Halloween.... more

A man for all seasons Sir Thomas More brought low by fiction

17.09.09
By traducing Sir Thomas More, Hilary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall, frontrunner for the Man Booker Prize, does history a disservice... more

Don’t label us - we all share our city’s history

03.06.09
Every new arrival in the capital has the chance to work hard, put down roots and become a Londoner... more

Political humour as subtle as a man thrown down a stairwell

13.05.09
Just so that we're straight on this from the beginning, you should know that I like Barack Obama. Got that book he wrote about his dad and dreams and everything... more

Forget the laptop and look the world in the face...

03.03.09
Tonight there will be a gala at the National Portrait Gallery and it has made me think of all the faces one sees in London... more

My annual skate is being put on ice

17.12.08
Splat! That's the sound of me ice-skating and it's a noise that has been heard for the last time throughout this city... more

Is this Henry VIII I see before me? No, it's Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Dublin town centre

30.07.08
Dubliners out and about in the Irish capital today could be forgiven for thinking they'd seen a ghost this afternoon.... more

Great Days Out J-R

22.07.08
We continue with our quest to make your summer far-from dull with an A-Z guide of summer fun, so why not try your hand at making your own family movie or take part in a night-time bat safari.... more

Step back in time to castles and palaces

09.07.08
Go back in time to a land of fairytale castles, battleships or Victorian drudgery. Daralyn Danns looks at the places that bring history and heritage alive.... more

Best attractions on the banks of the Thames

09.07.08
Some of the best attractions in London lie on the banks of the River Thames - and to make visiting them even more special, get there by boat.... more

DVDs of the week

01.07.08
Be Kind Rewind has a lot of heart, Mad Men is a pitch that's hard to refuse and The Other Boleyn Girl is not what you'd expect.... more

Twisted sisters

06.03.08
Two sisters vie for King Henry VIII's favour in The Other Boleyn Girl, an adaptation that's long on pageantry but short on psychology.... more

Scarlett and Natalie show sisterly support at Royal Premiere of Anne Boleyn film

19.02.08
Scarlett Johannson and Natalie Portman took part in a sister act in Leicester Square - at the royal premier of The Other Boleyn Girl. The actresses braved a chilled London evening earlier ahead of the first showing of the period drama, in which Portman plays Henry VIII's doomed wife Anne Boleyn and Johannson plays Mary, her sister, in an intriguing tale of the pair's relationship with the lusty monarch ... more

Into the imagination

21.08.07
Tales of the insane: take the plunge into the boundless wilds of quirky Brooklyn comic Kristen Schaal's imagination.... more

Go with the flow

25.07.07
Whatever floats your boat, there's loads to do on the banks of the River Thames this summer.... more

Best events for the Bank Holiday weekend

02.05.07
There's plenty to keep you occupied over the long weekend, including a May Day festival, a new Star Wars exhibition and a Bank Holiday BBQ at Camden's Proud Galleries.... more

And next year's winners will be ...

15.02.07
The Brits threaten to clean up at the Oscars - but can our film industry sustain the good form? Charlotte O'Sullivan looks ahead to the movies that could take next year's prizes.... more

Violence and beauty collide

01.12.06
Pain and violence have rarely looked as seductive as in Raqib Shaw's strange and intricate paintings on show at Tate Britain, says Nick Hackworth.... more

How the English dumbed down Hans Holbein

02.10.06
The brilliant young German who became court painter to Henry VIII was a devout Catholic and could easily have lost his head. Dull conformity saved him from the axe, says Brian Sewell.... more

More family is back home after 500 years

25.09.06
A portrait which has not been seen in Britain for almost 500 years will be one of the main attractions in Tate Britain's Hans Holbein autumn blockbuster.... more

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