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Beatrix Potter is one of the most beloved children’s authors of all time, with her characters being an integral part of many people’s childhood memories. It is no surprise, then, that publisher Jo Hanks said she and other lovers of Potter’s fiction have ‘something truly phenomenal on our hands’...

Tuesday 26th January 2016 saw J.K. Rowling awarded the PEN award of Free-Speech, which is given each year to an author that embodies the American organisation’s ideology of a free and just world. Particularly honoured for her charities Volant and Lumos, J.K. Rowling has aided institutionalized children, poverty and...

It’s a sad day when the final curtain comes down on a West End show, especially when it’s been a long running production. But with this comes the promise of a new spectacle, ready and eager to take its place. With the competition for West End venues higher than...

Sunday 24th January 2016 revealed Banksy’s new piece of work opposite the French Embassy in Knightsbridge, London. The artwork utilises the iconic image of Cosette, from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, crying as a result of teargas. His newest artwork is evidently critiquing the French authorities and their use of...

According to French scientist Pascal Cotte – one of the world’s leading experts in the analysis of paintings – other portraits can be found underneath the existing version of the Mona Lisa, art’s most famous masterpiece. Through the use of Layer Amplification Method (LAM) technology, Cotte claims to have...

After receiving his Physics Degree, University of Nottingham alumni Douggie McMeekin trained at LAMDA and is now receiving his professional stage debut as one of the Lost Boys in Ella Hickson’s Wendy & Peter Pan at the Royal Shakespeare Company. I talked to him about his time at UoN,...

It didn’t ever seem fair to me that while her brothers were off gallivanting round the enchanted island of Neverland, getting in trouble and general swashbuckling silliness, Wendy never really had much fun. Ella Hickson’s adaptation of J.M Barrie’s 1911 classic, has given a refreshing and contemporary lease of...