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Micro dramas, video games, online literature: Chinese digital content goes global
People Daily 02 Apr 2025
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War memorial will have names of soldiers who fought AGAINST Britain added to it alongside ...
The Daily Mail 02 Apr 2025
Critics however say the move - which would allow the inclusion of three German soldiers - amounts to 'wokery' ... The planning application stated. 'The First World War memorial outside the library omits those who did not serve on the British side ... .
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Economic Watch: Micro dramas, video games, online literature: Chinese digital content goes global
China.dot.org 01 Apr 2025
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Oxford college war memorial to include soldiers who fought against Britain
The Daily Telegraph 01 Apr 2025
The University of Oxford plans to add the names of soldiers who fought against Britain during the First World War to a memorial ... He told The Telegraph ... “The First World War memorial outside the library omits those who did not serve on the British side.
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Britain to return artwork stolen by Nazis to Jewish family
AOL 29 Mar 2025
LONDON (Reuters) - A 17th-century painting looted by the Nazis in 1940 from a Jewish art collector in Belgium will be returned to his descendants after spending three decades in a London gallery, the British government said on Saturday.
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From feeding spots to stained balconies: Pigeons and us
Financial Express 29 Mar 2025
A select pigeon could perform 15 charkhs and 70 bazis in one session,\u201d writes Ursula Sims-Williams, curator of Iranian languages at the British Library, in an article published in the British Library\u2019s Asian and African Studies blog.
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Manchester’s radical Black female activists: ‘We didn’t define ourselves as feminists’
The Observer 28 Mar 2025
Spirits of Resistance and Resilience by Adele Jones and Diana Watt, is published by Springer Cham and features in the Black British book festival at Manchester Central Library on 29 March.
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Just Stop Oil activist group says to stop climate protest stunts
Knoxville Daily Sun 27 Mar 2025
... the Wimbledon championships, while in May 2024, two activists in their 80s took a hammer and chisel to the glass case surrounding the Magna Carta at the British Library, holding up a sign that said.
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The End: philosopher explains new climate-collapse musical using the allegory of Plato’s Cave
The Conversation 27 Mar 2025
Mother (Tilda Swinton) hangs Renoirs in their private gallery ... Butler (Tim McInnerny) decorates their library ... Matthew Duncombe receives funding from the British Academy, Loeb Classical Library Foundation and the Spanish Ministry of Education. .
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Multiplex to start work on 50 Fenchurch Street job this summer
Building 26 Mar 2025
Multiplex, along with Mace and Sir Robert McAlpine, is bidding the £600m British Library scheme while Axa IM Alts is hoping work on a 46-storey tower at 63 St Mary Axe, designed by Fletcher Priest, could start in early 2027 if the scheme is approved.
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Letter of the week: Debasing the database
New Statesman 26 Mar 2025
Jason Cowley’s piece on the British Council (Encounter, 14 March), prompted by a conversation with its CEO, Scott McDonald, on a train from Lodz to Warsaw, reminds me of my visit to Lodz in 1988, when I was director of the British Council in Poland.
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The rapturous return of FKA twigs: ‘I grew up feeling my body could do anything’
The Observer 26 Mar 2025
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The other presidential portraits of Bush, Obama and Clinton reveal how artist Sarah Boardman 'distorted' ...
The Daily Mail 25 Mar 2025
His 'unflattering' portrait by British-born Sarah Boardman was removed after the president savaged the artwork on social media on Sunday ... When Boardman painted Trump's portrait, the British-born artist ...
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