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14 Hours in The Queue to See Queen Elizabeth’s Coffin

by Carolyn Wells September 23, 2022October 19, 2022

“Stood among strangers in search of history, I had a strange epiphany.”

London town houses
Posted inNonfiction

Selling Mayfair: The Very Different World of Prime Central London Realtors

by Carolyn Wells February 14, 2022October 14, 2022

On the fascinating world of London real estate.

Posted inNonfiction

The Great British Reading List

by Carolyn Wells November 11, 2021October 19, 2022

A reading list on the weird and wonderful culture of Great Britain.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Reckoning: Rape Culture and the Crisis in British Schools

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 19, 2021October 19, 2022

“After Scarlett Mansfield collated 200 accounts of sexual harassment, inspectors put her former school on notice. Could it be the first of many?”

Posted inNonfiction

Don’t F**K With the Pet Detectives

by Longreads March 9, 2021October 12, 2022

To catch a serial killer.

Posted inQuotes

The Joy of a Pointless Walk

by Carolyn Wells March 5, 2021October 14, 2022

“Maybe walking into some marshes, and deciding at an undetermined future point to stop walking, was what was available to the Romantics, but I think we can do better.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Curse of the Buried Treasure

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 11, 2020October 19, 2022

“Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

Shelved: The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band’s “Brain Opera”

by Tom Maxwell September 26, 2019January 27, 2023

What happens when you’re not different just for the sake of being different.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

Manic Street Preachers’ Album The Holy Bible

by Longreads June 25, 2019October 19, 2022

How a band seemingly out of step with its times outlasted so many of its indulgent, in-step contemporaries.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing

by Longreads February 19, 2019October 19, 2022

The history of England’s fertile music press reveals as much about the opinionated English youth who created it as it does the music they covered in the second half of the 20th century.

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