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Charlie Connelly

Anton Chekhov, in the centre, reads a script to actors from the Moscow State Art Theatre in 1898

Great European Lives | Opinion

Anton Chekhov: a man out of his time

Charlie Connelly

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A painting of Shakespeare talking to some of Walter Raleigh's men, who have returned from the Spanish Main

Books | Opinion

From Bard to worse: Boris Johnson's hot take on Shakespeare

Charlie Connelly

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The village of Luz-Saint-Sauveur in the Hautes-Pyrenees, France; People Like Them is set in a similar mountain community 

Books | Review

Success is in the details for this literary horror

Charlie Connelly

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Lili Alvarez at the 1926 Wimbledon championships, 1926

Great European Lives

The campaigner of Centre Court

Charlie Connelly

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Ennio Morricone in his office in Rome in the 1970s

Great European Lives | Opinion

Ennio Morricone: The Italian behind film's most famous music

Charlie Connelly

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Irish actors protest in front of 15 Usher's Island, made famous by a James Joyce short story, The Dead

Books | Opinion

The literary landmarks under threat

Charlie Connelly

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Primo Carnera at The Ring venue, Blackfriars Road, London, having his shorts adjusted, in 1937

Great European Lives | Opinion

Primo Carnera: The heavyweight with a burden

Charlie Connelly

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Tove Jansson and partner Tuulikki Pietilä on the island of Klovharun with their cabin behind them

Books | Opinion

The island life of Tove Jansson

Charlie Connelly

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World War I. Infantrymen of the French army lunching in their trench (France). In 1915. (Photo by ad

Books | Opinion

The prize that rewards silenced stories

Charlie Connelly

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Birger Ruud jumps at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where a swastika flag flies. He later won the Olympics there

Great European Lives

Birger Ruud: The ski jumper who became a resistance fighter

Charlie Connelly

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