Stoke City started the 1974/75 season with the best team they had ever had, trying to win the league for the first time. In a vintage era, they fell just short as half-a-dozen teams contested one of the tightest finishes ever. It is a story that will resonate with every fan whose team has promised much - but not quite managed to deliver.
Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the great Caravaggio. As a young woman she was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honor was everything. Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century. Gentileschi's art communicated a powerful personal vision. Like Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, or Tracey Emin, she put her life into her art.