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Margaret Thatcher’s administration had spent 1984 battling the miners and dismantling the coal industry. But with that fight almost won, as the clock ticked into the New Year, she had another of the U

The chants from the terraces should be treated as seriously as a symphony,

No one has ever fallen for the Basque County quite like Archduchess Maria Christina. An exquisite pianist and polyglot, she left the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy to marry King Alfonso of Spain in 1879

You don’t need to be a football fan to find the sound of a crowd singing together profoundly moving. And you don’t need to be a Liverpool FC fan to find the Kop end singing You’ll Never Walk Alone a b

hree years ago, in the final of the Euros at Wembley, the image of Chloe Kelly’s iconic celebration transformed women’s football in England forever. Shirt twirling above her head, Kelly had just score

After a 52-year wait, the women are back at Baron’s Court. Whoever is crowned champion has a lot to live up to, says Simon Barnes