This week we are sharing stories from Lana Hall, Benjamin Hale, Sarah Bird, Rachel Browne, and Tom Lamont.
Britain
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Secret Lives of MI6’s Top Female Spies
“For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times.”
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14 Hours in The Queue to See Queen Elizabeth’s Coffin
“Stood among strangers in search of history, I had a strange epiphany.”
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The Reckoning: Rape Culture and the Crisis in British Schools
“After Scarlett Mansfield collated 200 accounts of sexual harassment, inspectors put her former school on notice. Could it be the first of many?”
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‘The Mark of the Beast’: Georgian Britain’s Anti-Vaxxer Movement
“The arguments made by today’s anti-vaxxers often echo those put forth by their nineteenth-century antecedents: claims of inefficacy, allegations of ghastly side effects, appeals to religion.”
Posted inNonfiction
Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth. Livvy Potts wants to know why.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Sandwich Whisperer of Victoria Street
The art of sandwich-making requires “tenacity, knowledge, know-how, flair.”
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How the Sandwich Consumed Britain
To perfect a culinary staple as ubiquitous and timeless as the sandwich “is a question of using tenacity, knowledge, know-how, flair.”
Posted inReading List, Unapologetic Women
The Unknowable Diana, 20 Years On: A Reading List
Why were we personally affected by a woman few knew and even fewer ever understood?
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Will London Fall?
In an increasingly insular Britain, the world’s most cosmopolitan capital is bracing for an uncertain future.