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From counterculture to pop culture: The story of indie publisher Headpress Books

From counterculture to pop culture: The story of indie publisher Headpress Books

The Manchester-founded company celebrates its 35th anniversary this year
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Barry Lyndon at 50: Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece hits a milestone

Barry Lyndon at 50: Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece hits a milestone

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With the term ‘masterpiece’ thrown around far too often in the modern cinematic world, Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon prevails as the very definition of this lauded term
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The art of tone: A legacy of the student voice

The art of tone: A legacy of the student voice

The Mancunion looks back at its 60-year evolution of tone on its anniversary, and how the art of the student voice is ever changing
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Interstellar: A tenth anniversary retrospective

Interstellar: A tenth anniversary retrospective

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As Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar reaches its tenth anniversary, it’s worth exploring why it has remained a firm favourite in the eyes of many fans
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Live review: Scouting For Girls at Albert Hall

Live review: Scouting For Girls at Albert Hall

Scouting For Girls transport the audience to the year 2007 for a fun, nostalgic night of bangers and mash
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The Kooks Live Review: The ‘Inside In / Inside Out’ of a gleefully nostalgic night

The Kooks Live Review: The ‘Inside In / Inside Out’ of a gleefully nostalgic night

A review of ‘The Kooks’ live at Manchester o2 Victoria Warehouse as they tour their 15 year old album ‘Inside in/Inside out’
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Rock on gold dust woman: Rumours at 45

Owen Scott looks back at Fleetwood Mac’s iconic album ‘Rumours’ as it turns 45
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Preview: Gottwood Festival 2019

Preview: Gottwood Festival 2019

Contributor Henry Delamain takes a look at what Gottwood’s, the cult-festival in the Welsh countryside, 2019 lineup has to offer
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Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing

Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing

Bella Jewell reviews the latest show at the Manchester Art Gallery – Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing – one of 12 exhibitions taking place across the UK to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death
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The periodic table: 150 years in the making

The periodic table: 150 years in the making

2019 marks 150 years since the periodic table was invented. Writer Byron Gamble discusses its history
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Good Times Bad Times: Zeppelin’s 50th Anniversary

Good Times Bad Times: Zeppelin’s 50th Anniversary

Olivia White revisits one of the industry’s most celebrated and successful bands there ever was as they approach their 50th Anniversary
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Sigmund Freud’s Life and Influence

“Probably no theory evolved by man is as absurd as Sigmund Freud’s theory of penis envy.” –Esther Vilar in ‘The Manipulated Man’.
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Do creativity and mental instability really go hand in hand?

The anniversary of Plath’s death is a chance to reflect again on the reciprocity of these two factions
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The Bell Jar’s new cover: a necessary facelift?

The new ‘chick-lit’ image undermines the novel’s integrity, but can all be forgiven if it reaches a wider readership?
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