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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine

12 August, 2025

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The Week UK

Arts

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Country Life

Humble, grumble, toil and scumble

From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals

All About History

The victorian female detective

Delve into the hidden world of 19th century crime-fighting women with Professor Sara Lodge

Homes & Antiques

The culture shapers: powerful women

Exaggerating her beetling monobrow and wispy dark moustache in self-portraits, the artist Frida Kahlo was a female force to be reckoned with, unafraid to pour her heart onto the canvas. Only last autu

The TLS

First class delivery?

Lucy Inglis BornThe untold history of childbirth336pp. Bloomsbury Continuum. £25. Hannah Marsh ThreadA Caesarean story of myth, magic andmedicine320pp. Leap. £20. Lucy Inglis’s new book Born: The unto

Prospect

Poetry in motion

You wouldn’t guess from the cover design—three songbirds silhouetted over swatches of picturesque Englishness—but Catherine Clarke’s A History of England in 25 Poems hits one of its sweet spots with a