William Cook

Articles by William Cook

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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?

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

Light entertainment

  • 28 August 2006

The Blackpool Illuminations attract more visitors than the Edinburgh Festival, but are ignored by snooty arts critics

The happy holiday we outgrew

  • 17 July 2006

As Butlins celebrates its 70th birthday, William Cook pays tribute to a much-maligned British institution

The making of a Jew

  • 26 June 2006
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Sigmund Freud's cultural identity was central to the man and his work, finds William Cook

Tribal gathering

  • 08 May 2006

Photography - William Cook on an exhibition that charts the tragic demise of America’s indigenous past

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

Overdrawn

  • 27 March 2006

Art - William Cook on the artist who came to hate his best-known creation

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

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

Cricket's revolution

The Ashes and globalisation

The empire strikes back

Ziauddin Sardar

Move over viagra

Put a little spice in your box

Religion

Does God hate women?

Does God Hate Women?

Art

Medals of dishonour

Pin the blame on them

James Macintyre

Cameron the bully?

A fresh approach?

Canada

The new dope lords

Traffic out of control

Television

Revelations

Revelations: How to Find God

Travel

Brussels and surrealism

Nothing is as it seems

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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