William Cook
Articles by William Cook
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Politics
Britain's forgotten hero
- 23 October 2006
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How has it happened that the man who did more than any other to bring about the abolition of slavery is today without honour in his own country?
Travel
A world apart
- 18 September 2006
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Sitges is the gay holiday capital of Europe. But that is changing as families invade
Arts & Culture
Light entertainment
- 28 August 2006
The Blackpool Illuminations attract more visitors than the Edinburgh Festival, but are ignored by snooty arts critics
Travel
The happy holiday we outgrew
- 17 July 2006
As Butlins celebrates its 70th birthday, William Cook pays tribute to a much-maligned British institution
Arts & Culture
The making of a Jew
- 26 June 2006
- 1 comment
Sigmund Freud's cultural identity was central to the man and his work, finds William Cook
Arts & Culture
Tribal gathering
- 08 May 2006
Photography - William Cook on an exhibition that charts the tragic demise of America’s indigenous past
Arts & Culture
Small town boy
- 17 April 2006
We are used to thinking of Rembrandt van Rijn as Holland's greatest painter, yet as a young man he wasn't even the top artist in the small town of Leiden. William Cook revisits the master's early struggles
Arts & Culture
Overdrawn
- 27 March 2006
Art - William Cook on the artist who came to hate his best-known creation
Arts & Culture
The legacy of Bedazzled
- 25 July 2005
Comedy - The DVD release of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's finest flick reveals why the career of one man soared . . . and the other's didn't, according to their biographer William Cook
Books
Fiction - Diary of a nobody
- 25 October 2004
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Sue Townsend Michael Joseph, 460pp, £16.99
IDBN 0718146891
