William Cook

Articles by William Cook

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Air of unreality

  • 05 February 2007

William Cook finds that today's town planners have restored Dresden's historic buildings, but not its spirit

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

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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