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...This clashed with Evelyn’s more conservative vision. Ultimately Evelyn, a major shareholder, prevailed....
...Jacob Rothschild ultimately left the family business in a dispute over strategy with his cousin, Evelyn, selling his stake and forming RIT Capital Partners....
...One of the great students of Ireland’s native plants was Evelyn Booth, who published her fine Flora of County Carlow in 1979....
...The top layer was made up of white-flowered Crocus biflorus, one which I bought from J Parker’s as Crocus chrysanthus Miss Vain: it is especially good because it has bright orange-yellow stamens in the middle...
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...YSP Centre until 11 June Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City at High Museum of Art, Atlanta Alongside William Eggleston and William Klein, German-born American photographer Evelyn Hofer was one of the first...
...“J’aime votre chariot!” said a passing cyclist, leaping to my assistance. His grin carried a whiff of sarcasm. “Est-ce lourd?”...
...Peter Heather, Allen Lane £20, 208 pages Linda Colley is a professor of history at Princeton University Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophyby David J Chalmers, Allen Lane £25/WW Norton $32 One of the world’s leading philosophers re-examines all the age-old questions of life through the...
...DeJager, J Parkers and Jacques Amand are suppliers I use. Peter Nyssen has a keenly priced list and Organic Bulbs stock bulbs grown organically. Happy hunting, happy planting....
...For rooting compost, I use J Arthur Bower’s John Innes seed compost at roughly £9.99 per 25-litre bag, and I mix it with about a third of its bulk of perlite....
...But it also hosts concerts and events, and this October “A-Wing”, where Troubles inmates were housed, will open its doors as a working distillery reviving J&J McConnell’s Irish Whisky, founded in 1776....
...Endo at the Rotunda (White City) eighth Floor, The Helios, Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London W12 7FR Good for: An elegant Japanese omakase from a sparky, highly respected sushi master Not so good...
...Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophyby David J Chalmers, Allen Lane £25/WW Norton $32 Tech companies are busily building an alternative virtual reality in the metaverse....
...It’s just off Rayners Lane, in a classic interwar maze of bay-windowed Tudorbethan semis....
...De Jager, J Parker’s and others now offer them, newish hybrids between nerines and the gawky amaryllis....
...We would often wander up Brick Lane and order a bagel for a mere 9p for the journey home....
...In 1683, the diarist John Evelyn visited and described how Child was planting walnut trees and making fishponds “many miles in circuit in Epping Forest, in a barren spot.”...
...Try the pairing of six Lindisfarne oysters with a cool gin martini (£35) for the full experience. 28-32 St Martin’s Court, WC2; book at j-sheekey.co.uk...
...The Duchess of Gloucester threw him a party, to which he wore Tahitian robes; he went to performances at Drury Lane and Sadler’s Wells; he attended the state opening of Parliament; he visited the north of...
...Suppliers to consult here are J Parker’s and de Jager who offer a Two Tone Mixture, pairing white Clearwater with rosy pink Dreamland....
...A multi-tracked Mary J Blige sings up a storm on “Spinnin’”, whose music is a well-judged mix of ornate orchestration and rhythmic discipline....
...Green J Jam from Worcestershire is showing more than 50 different varieties of those late summer staples, penstemons....
...Why English satirical novelist and biographer Evelyn Waugh bought this house in 1956, 10 years before his death, and his family lived there until 2008....
...Also included here are poems including “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” and “Journey of the Magi”, all of which will repay repeated listening....
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