IT’S A FUNNY OLD WORLD

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After celebrating her 80th birthday, Dolly Parton shares her positive outlook on ageing, retirement and widowhood

I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro

Having always relied on running to help her through tough times, Lisa Jackson lost her mojo when she needed it most. The RW columnist shares her journey through grief, how she finally managed to fall back in love with running and how you, too, can reignite the spark

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