Her work, with its plain language, drew a wide following but divided critics

Grieving daughter Nadia pays tribute to mother and friend ‘inspired by generosity’

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Donald Clarke: The Who’s ‘Tommy’, ‘Quadrophenia’, Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’, Lloyd Webber. Enough

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The actor, who made his breakthrough in The Hateful Eight, puts the same thought into his Tomb Raider character that another actor might reserve for Richard III

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Patrick Meade has sold everything from shipwreck treasure to showbiz memorabilia

Mr Tambourine Man is arguably the most pirated pirate in the history of modern music

A new exhibition about the decade celebrates Britain when it was at its most thrilling

Leave campaigners cling to ‘Jerusalem’ and ‘This scepter’d isle’. They’ve misunderstood both William Blake and Shakespeare

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Too early to tell if Marc Bolland’s costly recovery plan finally working

‘A voice crying forever into the north wind of indifference’

Willie John McBride: ‘He was just one of the great men of this world, I am just proud I had him as a friend’

‘I’m grateful to the authors of shorter books, because my concentration is shot from the internet and all the coffee’

Review: Barry believed that the sole purpose of landscape was to serve as background to the depiction of “significant human action”, which was the central business of a serious painter

Is obsessing about appearances, and the ‘spectacle of the public putdown’, all driven by economics?

Opinion: How strange it is that global warming has become an issue that divides right and left

Wikileaks founder will be given the Thought For The Day slot BBC Radio 4 on Thursday

Chris Wood is getting to the heart of England’s recession with his songs written while on the road

The classic children’s story is 150 years old