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Mert Alas' Christmas wish list

From Venezian slippers to ballet tickets, here’s everything the creative director wants to find under his tree this year

Evening Standard · Nov 28, 2025

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde

Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2025

Paris launches lottery for burial plots near Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and Oscar Wilde

Fancy having your final resting place next to the stars? Parisians are being offered the chance to win a burial spot among some of history's most famous artists, including the Doors' Jim Morrison, author Oscar Wilde and French singer Édith Piaf.

Euronews · Nov 7, 2025

Hidden London: James J Fox

For almost 240 years, the shop has drawn the great and the good, from Churchill to Oscar Wilde

Evening Standard · Oct 18, 2025

Was Oscar Wilde Gay? Questions Resurface After His Library Card Is Reissued 130 Years After Being Revoked Over Suspicions of Homosexuality

Oscar Wilde's reading pass for the British Library was reissued after its revocation 130 years ago.

International Business Times UK · Oct 17, 2025

Oscar Wilde’s library card reissued by the British Library 130 years after it was revoked

The British Library said they hoped to honour Wilde’s memory and ‘acknowledge the injustices and immense suffering he faced’

The Independent UK · Oct 16, 2025

After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal

The playwright’s only living descendant traces the shadow cast by his trial – and his rehabilitation as a gay icon

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2025

Tombstone tourism: Meet the travelling taphophiles obsessed with graveyards

A growing number of tourists are “rebelling against tick-box travel” by ditching the popular sights for a trip to the graveyard.

Euronews · Oct 12, 2025

Salomé review – breathtakingly boring spin on Oscar Wilde’s baroque tragedy

Maxim Didenko delivers Wilde’s version of the biblical tale with a blingy design, topless men in hoods and yodelling

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2025

The Importance of Being Earnest review – Stephen Fry’s Lady Bracknell presides over merrily queered comedy

Max Webster’s frisky Oscar Wilde revival, first seen at the National Theatre, arrives in the West End with a new cast

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2025