Robert Schumann’s teenage ambitions of virtuosity were undone by the onset of debilitating pain in his right hand.

Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, ...

Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...

A standard English textbook in China asks students to compose a letter from someone called Li Hua to their British friend Allen, inviting him to a music festival. When the US ban on TikTok briefly ...

The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth ...

Children’s fiction has its own peculiar power: like a swordstick in an umbrella, it can flash sharp at unexpected moments. Taken seriously, it can work not just to educate but to transform and ...

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety. Following the story of Lucius, forced to suffer as a donkey until the goddess ...

Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England. How did the English go from seeing arithmetic as the province of tradespeople and ...