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...When Prime Minister William Pitt declared that Britain would remain neutral after the Revolutionary National Assembly passed the first French constitution in 1791, the cartoonist James Gillray depicted the...
...Like those of many post-industrial English communities, Barnsley’s town centre is still graced by the relic of a bygone municipal era — a handsome Grade II-listed town hall, from which its local government...
...“It’s gone back to how it was in the 18th century and the way cartoonists like James Gillray were lampooning the royal family on a daily basis,” said Irving....
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...Conductor and founder William Christie is generous to his instrumentalists, so organ, flute, horn and cello all get their moment in the spotlight....
...The 120 artists represented include Dorothea Lange, William Klein and other giants of the medium....
...In 2013, they bought a derelict, Grade II-listed building and outhouses at auction in the village of Thorncombe....
...Their historic, Grade II-listed mansion in Gloucestershire had made headlines years earlier when the couple sought to build a Palladian-style chicken coop at an estimated cost of £150,000....
...He is stretched out on a bespoke sofa designed by Tyler Hays’ design brand BDDW in the airy sitting room of the Grade II-listed house....
...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...
...This year’s line-up includes James Blake, Cat Power, Simple Minds, Queens of the Stone Age, Air, Take That and The National....
...Chief among them was the ultra-conservative archbishop of LA Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, who resented the IHM sisters’ liberal approach....
...As a keen history buff, the King will be aware that James I’s assumption of divine authority above statute law, his distaste for public ceremonies, fed a reaction that would end with his son Charles’s execution...
...When Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, the Commonwealth in its current form had been in existence for only three years....
...You can see James Baldwin debate William Buckley in 1965. Or Richard Feynman lecture on photons to an audience in Auckland in 1979....
...James II fled and William and Mary ushered in a constitutional monarchy, what Healey calls “the last revolution” of 1688-89....
...Over in Aldeburgh, restaurateur George Pell opened the buzzy L’Escargot Sur-Mer – a sister to his Soho outpost – in the summer of 2020....
...Visiting these formal rooms, which include a magnificent marble parlour devoted to Bacchus (created by architect James Gibbs and developed by William Kent) and sumptuous thematic bedchambers, is a sensory...
...Labour’s James Callaghan went further than most when he disclosed that she offered holders of that office her “friendliness but not friendship”....
...III’s victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690....
...While Prince Charles seemed to be no great moderniser, his two sons by Diana, William and Harry, returned a more popular image to the royal family, epitomised in 2011 by Prince William's Westminster Abbey...
...These Trembling Horizons pieces were partly inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest optical telescope in space, which uses infrared resolution to view objects too far away or faint...
...(who gave it to his rumoured lover, Piers Gaveston); the Black Prince (father of Richard II); and Lord Williams of Thame, who built the current house on the medieval site....
...James Detert, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, says evolution has hard-wired us not to deviate from our group....
...This week, to mark her platinum jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II gave a tell-all TV interview....
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