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...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...James McMahon Photographs: Annie Flanagan for the FT; Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos; David Fenton/Getty Images...
...highlights from the collection of the world’s oldest surviving photographic society, founded in 1853, this show traces how photographers across two centuries shaped our perception of the world — from Roger Fenton...
...George Michael, the Pet Shop Boys and Jessie J are among the artists expected to perform in the show, but Mr Gavin would not confirm the final line-up....
...For Orwell, Wells and other great New Statesman writers such as J.B....
...A third competition expert, Simon Holmes at S .J. Berwin, said the UIL document was “thin” but expected details to be hammered out once a 15-day consultation period was over....
...Additional reporting by Ed Hammond, Louise Lucas, Paul J Davies, Masa Serdarevic, Andrew Jack, Dan Thomas, Ben Fenton...
...“Pearls have always been the anchor of my collections,” says Dana Lorenz, founder of Fenton Fallon (prices from £30)....
...pleasure of cupping his girlfriend’s breasts (“they didn’t have to rhyme but they did”); it’s the primal, four-beat ballad that ZZ Top, and Lennon and McCartney, Wendy Cope, Dr Seuss, Irving Berlin, James Fenton...
...Mr Ostrowski said it was “by no means certain” whether G&J would submit a binding offer for the trade-magazine unit of UK publisher Reed Elsevier after showing initial interest during the current auction...
...One professor of classical history, J.G.C. Anderson, objected strongly, saying it was wrong to “send money out of the country” at the height of the Great Depression....
...Asda, the British supermarket owned by Wal-Mart, the biggest retailer in the world, cast the first spell when it claimed Bloomsbury was withholding 500,000 copies of J.K....
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