William Shakespeare

The centrality of the Muslim world to Shakespeare’s work

Ignored for centuries, the presence of Muslims are prominent in the oeuvre of one of Britain’s most quintessential figures.

Grandmother, 90, gets first Covid jab as UK starts vaccine drive

Margaret Keenan, the 90-year-old grandmother who became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine outside of a trial in Britain, has a message for others: "go for it" to beat the devastating disease.

This is why you’re bored in quarantine

Philosophers and psychologists may provide an explanation for the tedium some of us feel during lockdown.

400-year-old shark confirmed as world's oldest vertebrate

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen use radiocarbon dating to confirm the age of a Greenland shark. Estimated to have been born around the same time William Shakespeare died, the shark is as old as the Sultan Ahmet Mosque in Istanbul.

Obama tells British youth not to isolate from world

Barack Obama tells British youth not to pull back from world, one day after warning UK against Brexit

UK marks 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death

William Shakespeare's hometown leads global celebrations to mark 400 years since famous playwright's death