“The problem isn’t that the government is broken,” Greg Coleridge says, whipping out one of many activist slogans he’s been repeating so long they’re inextricably threaded into the fabric of his ...

No writer has had as much ink spilled in the interpretation of his works only to remain so woefully undervalued in the popular imagination as Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Despite co-creating English ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known for the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” a doozy of a poem that includes spirits, zombies and, of course, a rotting albatross. As it turns out, since the English ...

Break-ups had happened before of course. Henry VIII's split from the Vatican comes to mind, or Socrates' spat with the Athenian state, but this is the break-up over which we still take sides. Even ...

When photographer Mike Coleridge snapped a frame of young Aussie soldiers waiting for American helicopters in Vietnam in 1967 he couldn't have imagined the image would outlive him. The picture shows ...

It’s a trope that’s as old as the written word: the brilliant artist whose creative genius is intricately tied to substance abuse—or so the genius usually believes. For Hemingway, it was alcohol; for ...

In Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, Richard Holmes described how, aged 18, he followed the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson and his donkey almost 100 years earlier as they walked ...

In July 1913, friends of the African British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor gathered in his hometown of Croydon, England, to lay a plaque on his grave in anticipation of the first ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1797, Wordsworth and his adored sister Dorothy lived for a little over a year as Somerset neighbours to ...

Late Victorian London wasn't an easy place to achieve musical success if you were mixed-race and born outside of marriage, like composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Despite never setting foot in Africa, ...

Kimberly Stroud and Coleridge Bernard Stroud III raised their four children in California Ethan Miller/Getty; Kara Durrette/Getty C.J. Stroud is the son of Kimberly Stroud and Coleridge Bernard Stroud ...

The Black British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor will be honoured in a series of events in his hometown of Croydon, starting in August. A resident of Croydon for most of his relatively ...