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Most Canadians surely believe their society is governed by the rule of law. We all have rights and freedoms, safeguarded by the courts, that protect us from the tyranny of the state. All of that is mirage, argues Bruce Pardy. In this provocative...

Looking around London on the eve of the millennium, it would have been difficult to think that the UK government had an adviser on architectural design. The 1990s had been a dismal decade. Yet such a body existed in the quaintly named Royal Fine Art Commission, refounded in 1924. The original Commission had been created

Friends of the National Collections of Ireland has been involved in the donation of more than 1,000 works to collections across Ireland

The author's London home used to be a regular menagerie.

Art UK publishes an annual report of new public sculptures, including those of “named men and women”. Last year, it says, there were more statues erected to the living than to the dead. It distinguishes these 26 persons by race – 10 black and 16 white – and by sex – 12 women and 14 men. The charity says disapprovingly that the people depicted in our public sculpture remain “overwhelmingly white men”.

The creator of Other Voices talks to Pavel Barter about how the TV music series mirrors modern society

 Cork drummer and filmmaker Ruairí Glasheen spoke to some of the masters of an instrument with surprisingly modern origins 

The life of William Wallace, from outlaw to national hero, left an indelible mark on Scottish history. His martyrdom sparked the fight for freedom and cemented

Many times, evidence of fantastic finds vanishes, leaving behind only legends (think the Tulli Papyrus or Robin Hood’s Hideout).

A detailed Waterloo Cartoon recreation has been unveiled at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.