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The year 1843 was momentous in the Scottish Church. After years of protest at the right of landowners to confer clerical livings on ministers of their choosing, a third of ministers broke away from the established church to form the Free Church of Scotland. Conscience came at a price. Stripped of their parishes, their manses and their incomes, many of the rebels found themselves penniless.At the same time, Scottish landowners were engaged in the final throes of the Clearances, a century-long endeavour to expel tenants…

It’s 1843, and along with hundreds of his fellow ministers, Reverend John Ferguson has broken away from the Church of Scotland to form a new denomination. His zeal is dented only by the worldly question of how he and his wife, Mary, are to survive without his stipend, which is why he agrees to sail to a tiny island halfway to Norway. Dispatched with scanty provisions and a pistol, he must inform its lone inhabitant, a crofter named Ivar, that he’s to be evicted as part of the Highland Clearances.So begins Carys Davies’s…

Soap veteran Erika Slezak's daughter, Amanda Davies, died at the age of 42. The 77-year-old actress confirmed the news of her daughter's death via a statement posted Monday on her official fan club website, citing the tragic incident as “sudden.” Davies was famous for portraying the younger version of her real-life mother on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live. One Life to Live star Amanda Davies, the daughter of Erika Slezak, died 'very suddenly' at the age of 42(Getty Images) How did One Life to Live…

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Christopher Eccleston has had a long road of private and publicly processing his time on Doctor Who—for many years, the actor simply refused to talk about why, having helped turn the series into a sensation when it returned in 2005, he left and never looked back. But, while still largely reserved, Eccleston is now more open about his experience than ever—and clearer about what it’d take for him to return.'Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police' | AI UnlockedThe brusque actor went viral this week after a brief moment from…

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For as much as Doctor Who’s first 60th anniversary special, “The Star Beast,” was a celebration of the old, it also brought plenty of new with it—including Heartstopper’s Yasmin Finney as Rose, Donna Noble’s trans teenage daughter. But for as important as Rose became to the episode, for showrunner Russell T. Davies, it was equally important to show the realities of her existence as a young transgender person.Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI UnlockedEarly on in “The Star Beast” as Rose and her mother walk home,…