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What’s a winter friend and red all over?
Not only the Morning Star, as RICHARD HORNSEY, ANNA GREENWOOD and HILARY INGRAM explain with a brief history of Britain’s obsession with the hot water bottle
COMPLEX REALATIONSHIP: The sculpture Big Mother, 2015, by Erwin Wurm; Woman at work on a rubber plantation, Java, 1915
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MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
LAST winter, British retailers reported record sales of water bottles as consumers look to cut their heating costs as the average household energy bills soared.
Boiling a kettle to fill a hot water bottle uses less energy than an electric blanket or turning on the heating and so is the cheapest option to keep you warm, according to consumer insights publication Which?
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