Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is publishing a new memoir and will personally sign every copy. “I’ve done more books now, I think, than Shakespeare, sort of,” said Ryder,... Read more »
When slavery was abolished in the British empire in 1833, it was thought only reasonable that slave-owners should be recompensed for the loss of their property: the British government had to borrow the equivalent... Read more »