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When did you first hear about Connolly?

I’m a lifelong Hibs [Hibernian Football Club] fan, and I first heard about him because he was their ‘kit man’, laying out the team’s kit before matches.

What kind of man was he?

People think of Connolly as Irish, but he was born in Edinburgh’s ‘Little Ireland’ to migrant parents and spoke with a Scottish accent all his life. Like a ...


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Weimar is a small German city. Yet it looms large in European history. In the 1920s, it was synonymous with liberalism, internationalism and the fine arts. Yet, within a decade, many of its residents had embraced Nazism and Hitler was professing his love for the city. Here, in conversation with Spencer Mizen, historian and author Katja Hoyer reveals how the city that gave its...


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Alan Turing is one of the most celebrated of all British scientists. His work in cracking Nazi codes at Bletchley Park and his role in the evolution of the computer has earned him worldwide acclaim. Yet he died at the age of just 41, two years after being prosecuted for committing homosexual acts. Here, in conversation with Spencer Mizen, David Kenyon, the research historian ...


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It was at Chawton House, a cottage in rural Hampshire, that Jane Austen experienced one of the most fruitful episodes of her writing career.

In this third instalment of our four-part series charting the noveli...


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