"Gamers tend to glorify the past, wistfully recalling when graphics were simple, but the challenge was tough. Get two gaming veterans together and it’s not long before they’re reminiscing about how good Final Fantasy used to be, and how Jet Set Willy was better than Sonic the Hedgehog. Well I was there and let me tell you, it was weird."

We tend to look back on video game history with rose-tinted nostalgia, but some things tend to get overlooked amid those misty-eyed tales of gaming yore
theguardian.com|By Keith Stuart

"Whatever your perspective, these students are doing us a favour. They’re forcing us to confront our history – and understand better who we are."

First it was Cecil Rhodes, now it’s one of our most celebrated monarchs. These campaigns forces us to confront our colonial past – which doesn’t happen enough
theguardian.com|By Owen Jones

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Camille O’Sullivan recites Constance's lines from King John. She laments the loss of her captured son, but disputes the suggestion that she has gone mad

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Are you worse off than your parents?

Tell us your age and we’ll show you how rich or poor you are compared with other age groups and how much better (or worse) off you would have been at other points in the last few decades
theguardian.com|By Caelainn Barr