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(Photo By Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. Credit: WARNER BROS/GETTY IMAGES) For many, Casablanca is not just any old movie but the old movie. When Woody Allen was looking for a heroic exemplar for his nebbish cineaste in Play it Again, Sam, it was to Bogart’s Rick Blaine that he turned. When Nora E...

The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, by Caravaggio (1610). Photo by Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images In May 1606, Caravaggio’s rackety life caught up with him. He already had a long list of misdemeanours against his name. He had been twice arrested for carrying a sword without a permit; put on trial by the...

The last nine members sat high in the choir stalls, where we could see them. Now in their seventies, some had been members since they were children. They all looked happy, or at any rate, relieved. The church itself, built in red brick by the United Methodists in South Shields in 1905, looked implacably the same. Sq...