‘I felt that I should like to kiss the hands that had awakened a new world of music for me.’ The year was 1888, the occasion was the Paris debut of a 27-year-old pianist named Ignacy Jan Paderewski. A

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Gunfire erupted just after first light. Police officers had hurled pebbles at the shuttered windows of 100 Sidney Street in London’s East End, aiming to rouse the men they knew were inside, and to ind

The article on the battle against U-boats in the Second World War in the November issue omitted perhaps the most important episode. That was the part played by the late Joe Baker-Cresswell of Bamburgh

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