Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

The secret meaning of Vermeer’s art

PROUST’S FAMOUS NOVEL IS CALLED IN SEARCH of Lost Time, and isn’t that the key to why we love history? It’s the urge to recover the lost past. Can we get beyond the mysterious veil to real events and

Theatre: Oh, Mary! Trafalgar Theatre, London SW1 (0333-009 ...

A composer’s idiosyncratic guide to western classical music

How and why women fall through history’s gaps