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...the colonial commissioner for Cyprus realised the island had been overlooked, he phoned the Empire Marketing Board on December 23 to demand that the pudding, to be ceremoniously delivered to King George V,...
...It appeared in the same year as Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The Victorians really did invent Christmas. Cards are hardly new....
...By the 20th century, the “German toy” (as Charles Dickens called the tree) was brimming with decorations....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Simultaneously, London is also a place with backyard shanty housing and squalor that Charles Dickens would recognise....
...Later, because he taught them, he read the English classics, starting with Hardy and Dickens. He also began to write....
...The Korean Wave” exhibition at the V&A Lola Shoneyin Writer and festival organiser by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lola Shoneyin’s subversion is deliciously sly, her humour mordant, her eyes pitiless and...
...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...As well as other things, Byron was an ironist; Dickens a comic turn even when he was most polemical about grievous social wrong; Twain a stinging stalker of pompous lies and empty vanities....
...“Christmas at Sandringham was Dickens in a Cartier setting” was the evocative way in which the Duke of Windsor described the festive seasons of his childhood....
...Westminster Abbey, London The site of coronations and royal weddings, the storied abbey has set up a vaccination hub in its Poets’ Corner where literary luminaries such as Charles Dickens, Geoffrey Chaucer...
...In 2017, a German appeals court in Hamm agreed to hear a case brought by Saul Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who claims that RWE should be held accountable for climate change, specifically the melting...
...The Charles Dickens Museum’s lovely but tiny show Charles Dickens: Man of Science is greatly expanded by tours-in-character, actorly recitations of famous mysteries and an authentic magic lantern show....
...His literary heroes were Balzac, Dickens, Thackeray and Zola and he was as prolific as they were. Norman Mailer once said he was the hardest working writer of his time....
...On display at the V&A is a panel of floral marquetry attributed to Marc Simon that once decorated the ship’s deluxe Beauvais suite....
...The Normal Training School of Art was reinvented as the National Art Training School in 1863 and located in what is now the V&A museum....
...This year, 21 teenagers will get a hearing in the California appeals court for their claim in Juliana v US that the government failed to protect their rights to life, liberty and property by promoting the...
...Neither Charles Dickens nor George Orwell nor F Scott Fitzgerald even lived to that age. This trend is not universal....
...She attended Temple University and married her brother’s friend, Saul Windsor, after graduating with a bachelors degree in 1950. The marriage lasted less than a year....
...For this, Charles Dickens, the creator of a famous fictional legal battle — Jarndyce v Jarndyce — might be responsible....
...In the next century, Dickens, living nearby, took an interest....
...local celebrity Hominy, a former child actor who can no longer be found by his fans and attempts suicide, enslaving himself to a reluctant Me (a surname, hence the case “Me v the United States of America...
...In the Raj, the ruling classes prepare to celebrate King George V’s Silver Jubilee — so do some Indian dissenters, awaiting their chance to “blow the lords and ladies to kingdom come” — while on Corfu, a...
...Just read some Dickens’… For the first six months after Oliver Twist was removed, the system was in full operation....
...“We found letters from [John] Garrick, [Henry] Irving and [Charles] Dickens. Dickens was complaining about the bill.”...
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