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...On an industrial estate in Warrington, in the north of England, is the National Gas Archive. Among its records dating back more than a century, are hundreds of advertisements for central heating....
...Towards the end of our interview, he mentions, “I wanted to have a giant bonfire and burn my entire archives....
...She had posters from National Geographic on her bedroom walls and “adored knowing about living things”....
...At the time Oakeshott again argued she had done so “in the national interest”....
...Each of these pieces references an image in the V&A’s collection: these were records from Europeans who went to the Islamic world and brought back images....
...What is missing in the Wedgwood archives is a record of the philosophy behind Ravilious’s abstraction....
...“It’s going to make us an institution that’s as well regarded as the V&A or the National Portrait Gallery for photography,” says Phillip Roberts, the man who has been hired as the Bern and Ronny Schwartz...
...The government intends that this minimum will rise to reach two-thirds of the national median rate by 2024....
...I had expected “Diane”: mindless data-entry, scrolling through Twitter, maybe looking up my friends’ medical records in the database....
...Professional surfers come here for competitions and in the quest to be the first to ride a 100ft wave (the record currently stands at 86ft)....
...The furnace cooks the lead off the roof. Molten metal streams over the gargoyles, spattering the 4th arrondissement. Doing this stuff properly is harder than it looks....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...In 1973, with the Roe v....
...for Hawk aircraft that the company had sold to Indonesia, documents from the National Archives show....
...Like Google, it gathers granular data directly and its ad business has gained market share as rivals struggle....
...Starting in 2009, the records held at the National Archives in Kew were mined by Dr Nick Draper, a former JPMorgan banker turned academic, to create an archive that details that the British government paid...
...Now if only they would cook it for me, too.” Read more...
...The RAF’s “Per Ardua Ad Astra” is more appropriate — “Through struggle to the stars”. The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...When Cook first signalled the move in June 2020, it was immediately understood to be a massive blow to the digital ads industry estimated to be worth almost $400bn a year — bigger than Apple by revenue and...
...The V&A’s reconstructions of shabby but infinitely layered and complex ad hoc British mosques is very striking and among the most memorable displays....
...Analysts say that at a national level this can weigh on growth for years....
...Given the effect of the pandemic measures in hoisting UK national debt to record levels, for instance, taxes are likely to be raised or introduced in the years ahead, sparking a debate that has already broached...
...Childish point-scoring, such as this Conservative party ad praising Britain’s superior performance to continental Europe in Covid vaccinations while conveniently ignoring its record pandemic death rates,...
...When he came to the V&A, he saw it as “a place to which the upper classes could go without losing face”....
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