We lost two giants of British Culture this week, and Jonathan Miller definitely fit that title. His family announced that he was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and passed away at his home in ...

British conductor and international artist Mark Wigglesworth directs the Juilliard Orchestra in the final concert of Juilliard's FOCUS! 2013 festival, paying homage this season to the creativity, ...

British conductor and international artist Mark Wigglesworth directs the Juilliard Orchestra in the final concert of Juilliard's FOCUS! 2013 festival, paying homage this season to the creativity, ...

The programme began predictably enough, like the Renaissance, in Italy, with a Lonely Planet-style recapitulation of Michelangelo's David and the Florence Duomo. It was when we got back to Britain ...

Scriptwriter Colin Welland brandished his Academy Award for 1981’s “Chariots of Fire” and cried, “The British are coming.” It’s gone down in Oscar folklore as a moment of hubris followed by ...

Here is a characteristic sentence from David Norbrook’s introduction to “The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse,” published in 1992: Like More, Wyatt found it impossible to find a public discourse ...

In the opening episode, James explores how the Renaissance arrived, with a handful of influential European artists bringing ideas from the continent in the early 16th century - from the inspiration of ...