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(1) NICOLA GRIFFITH Q&A. “’Hild' sequel author Nicola Griffith talks about 'Menewood'” in the Christian Science Monitor. When did you first learn about the real Hild? I love old abbeys, old castles, all that kind of thing. But I had never been to [the ruins of Whitby] Abbey until I was in my early 20s.

A small command-line program that plays typewriter sounds every time you press a computer key. Does Google alter user search queries to generate more revenue? Scarecrow Video is keeping physical media alive. Slovenia’s beautiful, illustrated beehives. Social media app Mastodon will now run on an Apple II. A sleeping pod designed to let you nap vertically, which is apparently a good thing. What ever happened to hood ornaments? The standard cosmological model is saved! All that and more in WhatT...

In psychogeography, the journey is key. Each step a person takes helps them reshape and better understand the role the space around them plays in their life.

His school friend David Hare recalled that Hudson was an ‘angelic boy’, with a sense of irony which made him take most things lightly

New book about London's Tin Pan Alley

‘Moving to the UK: A Concise Guide for South Africans’ by Sam Beckbessinger is an accessible guide to emigrating to Britain.

All over our triskaidekaphobic city, superstitious measures are in effect to ward off this 'unluckiest' of figures...

Tudors: A History of England Volume II by Ackroyd, Peter - ISBN 10: 023076407X - ISBN 13: 9780230764071 - Macmillan - 2012 - Softcover

David Platzer on “The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern” by Peter Ackroyd.

Jenny Lee puts performers and artists on the spot about what really matters to them. This week, Belfast writer Joe Nawaz