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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....
...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”....
...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...
...“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....
...Change at the core v generous gestures A decade after a global financial crisis that shattered trust in large companies, the people who run them are keen to recast themselves as constructive social actors...
...These people were all giants in their field over the centuries, names like Churchill, Dickens, George Stephenson, Jane Austen, the Duke of Wellington, Darwin, Elgar, Faraday, Elizabeth Fry, Adam Smith, Christopher...
...He wanted to apply VTOL technology used by military aircraft such as the V-22 Osprey to the civilian sector....
...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....
...They replace Ros Stephenson and William Vereker, who become executive vice-chair of the investment bank....
...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....
...“The rule of law is at issue here,” said Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive....
...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...
...So, bar going back to our advise about watching the trend and remaining v sceptical about the level, we’re a bit stuck on this old problem....
...A chunk hereso follows, with our emphasis, but it’s a v good summary....
...Just read some Dickens’… For the first six months after Oliver Twist was removed, the system was in full operation....
...From JCap’s Anne Stephenson-Yang’s Monday note below....
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