Judith Mackrell

Going With The Boys tells the fascinating untold stories of female journalists. Tells tale of Clare Hollingworth who broke the news Germans invaded Poland in 1939.

Until the 1930s, female journalists were expected to know their place, which was mainly on the fashion or problem pages of the newspapers that employed them.

SARAH SANDS: It would once have seemed unimaginable that one Britain’s great institutions, the Post Office, could behave so cruelly and arrogantly. Yet the truth has come to light.

The Viscountess’s famous legs make two appearances in the painting

Lin Hwai-min has spent 46 years tackling revolt, repression and rice in his fast-changing homeland. Now he is handing over his dance-theatre juggernaut to a former slipper seller

As soon as it was announced that Danny Dyer would be making a history programme for the BBC, accusations of ‘dumbing down’ came thick and fast

How paperback redesigns give publishers a second chance at winning readers  The Washington Post

“A Quiet Evening of Dance” is a program of the choreographer’s new and newish works that begins in silence and builds to a brilliant finale.

When Luisa Casati took to the streets of Venice, she was often accompanied by her pet cheetah, who was drugged with opiates to stay calm in the crowds. With Casati’s

One Venetian palace, three extraordinary owners  The Washington Post

Two equally outrageous women lived in the Palazzo Venier before Peggy Guggenheim moved in. Ben Downing reviews “The Unfinished Palazzo” by Judith Mackrell.

From the runway strut to the hoochie koochie, choreographer Trajal Harrell is turning outlaw dance forms into radical, booty-shaking spectacle

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Three remarkable women are at the heart of this colourful story of an unloved building on the Grand Canal that became one the world’s most celebrated museums

Judith Mackrell weaves together stories of three unique women and the palazzo they each at one time owned on Venice’s Grand Canal.

Our top fiveHISTORYThe Romanovs by Simon Sebag MontefioreWeidenfeld £10.99 pp736A bravura history of the Russian imperial dynasty that does not blanch at the tales of excess that surround this often

Tap thunders into new territory, 25 performers make 10,000 moves, Lady Macbeth is laid bare and a young boy goes on a journey through gender transition

Alison Light · LRB  London Review of Books

Influential choreographer and teacher who used improvisation in both the creation and performance of her works

In a powerful, poetic work, Marc Brew traces how he returned to performance and reinvented himself as a choreographer after being injured in an accident