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Who is telling the truth in Kate Reed Petty’s True Story?

15 August 2020 9:00 am

This debut novel, which opens with ‘a high- school lacrosse party in 1999 and the rumour of a sexual assault,’…

The dining car of the London to Liverpool express — back when croutons were still served with the soup

Sexual assault, chamber-pot etiquette, and other problems of early rail travel

19 September 2015 8:00 am

Simon Bradley dates the demise of the on-board meal service to 1962, when Pullman services no longer offered croutons with…

Shame, sex, violence and race in 1980s London – and today

9 May 2015 9:00 am

Shame, sex, race and violence in 1980s London – and today