Ophelia is the eldest daughter of a Danish nobleman, Polonius. As the play opens, her family is only slightly less dysfunctional than Hamlet's. Ophelia's mother is long dead, her father is a pompous ...

What are muses, and why are we so obsessed with them? A muse is one’s source of inspiration, oftentimes depicted in the relationship between a male creative or artist and his female guiding star. In ...

The funeral of Britain's longest-ruling monarch concludes a life exemplified by a personal motto of "I serve." This photograph, taken by Annie Leibovitz in 2007, portrays a serene monarch whose ...

Jake Connor celebrates a try for Leeds Rhinos in 2025 Leeds Rhinos star Jake Connor will combine his playing duties with a head coach role in 2026 having been appointed as Siddal’s new boss. Reigning ...

Siddal is a 2yo b unknown from trained by G & J Moore, who is based at Horsham. It is sired by the stallion Pinatubo out of the dam Ophelia's Dream. Siddal is yet to break its maiden status, having ...

As a professor of pre-Raphaelite studies, I was excited to see that the track list for Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl includes a song called The Fate of Ophelia. Ahead of the ...

This piece received third place in the nonfiction category of the 2025 Wallace Prize. When I was nineteen it was my simple pleasure to walk every morning from class on York Street to my small room ...

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Residents were told to "close their doors and windows" after a large fire broke out on a quiet UK street, choking black smoke into the evening skies. West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue confirmed that 11 ...

A new book on the artist and muse Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (more widely called Elizabeth Siddal) was published this week. The new volume is penned by Glenda Youde of the University of York.

Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti, as this new book calls her in a break with convention, is better known by her maiden name: Elizabeth Siddal or Siddall (the spelling is uncertain, as is much else about her ...

This liveblog is now closed. For the latest updates click here. The death of Queen Elizabeth II is being mourned in Britain and around the world. The country’s longest-reigning monarch died Thursday ...