Hints and tips:
...One consequence of the “path” chosen by the great Victorian engineers is that some London basements have been used as sewage overflows in recent flash floods, which is clearly unacceptable....
...Birmingham once pioneered a form of “municipal socialism” under Joseph Chamberlain in the 1870s and the city owned its own gas and water suppliers. Now, the council is deeply indebted....
...Yet, as with his earlier public interventions since the groundbreaking poster series on the London Underground, Diary of a Victorian Dandy (1998), Shonibare’s work is too subtle to be didactic....
...Katie Schmuecker, policy adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, says: “There are choices involved and we need to prioritise this issue....
...Even aside from being a few miles from the core of Europe’s global city, it had lavish physical assets to work with: the canal, the Victorian brick, the ever-surprising green-ness....
...“If you want to fix Johannesburg, you must fix its heart,” which is an important transport conduit as well as a repository of the city’s history from the Victorian gold rush to the rise of democracy, Garner...
...First out of the gate in September was One Sloane, the maiden UK foray from Parisian hotelier Jean-Louis Costes and François-Joseph Graf, the maître of sumptuous interiors (and one of the most revered talents...
...Puccini’s death, Opera Australia is dedicating a concert to his most famous (and some lesser-known) arias and duets from works such as Madama Butterfly, Tosca and La bohème, sung by a cast including tenor Joseph...
...Look a little more closely, and on her right side were three vintage diamond brooches from New York-based jewellery dealer Joseph Saidian & Sons....
...In 1868, the civil engineer Joseph Bazalgette installed 250 plane trees on Victoria Embankment along the Thames....
...The “antelope” will stare down Sir Edwin Landseer’s bronze lions and gaze on the figures of Sir Henry Havelock and Sir Charles Napier, Victorian commanders of the empire’s wars and occupants of other plinths...
...Autumn colours reflected in the pond beside the Sir Joseph Banks Building....
...Some of the city’s most desirable Georgian and Victorian stretches bear names associated with private developers of the day....
...Partly as a result of Joseph Chamberlain’s campaign to get the government to adopt tariffs, and partly because of Britain’s involvement in the Boer War — a foreign entanglement that, not for the first or...
...As in her prizewinning 2017 book The Butchering Art — about how Joseph Lister transformed Victorian medicine with antiseptic — Fitzharris doesn’t sensationalise the gory details of the battlefield or operating...
...After the Great Stink of London in 1858, Joseph Bazalgette built his “super sewer”. Paris and New York followed suit. Plumbing had come of age, facilitating facilities inside homes....
...The revamped role requires girlish manners and cut-glass technique and both were supplied by Anna Rose O’Sullivan, partnered by Joseph Sissens....
...He sticks closer to tradition this time, with a Victorian naval setting, but peps up the comedy in pantomime style....
...But cinema’s most haunting portrait came with a director from Missoula, Montana — David Lynch’s account of the tragic life of Joseph Merrick is also a vivid conjuring of the Victorian city....
...The exhibition catalogue became a guide for Victorian designers....
...Its Crystal Palace, an architectural and engineering marvel designed by Joseph Paxton, ushered in a new world, a bubble of production, consumption and colonialism....
...Joseph O’Neill’s The Dog and Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians aside, though, the stories behind the windows of those icicle towers go untold....
...Which cathedral did the Victorian art critic John Ruskin consider “out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles”?...
...While Archer composes herself, I prompt Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the 19th-century engineer who built the monumental London sewers and saved its citizens from cholera and dysentery....
...Professional success began with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat in 1968, when he was not yet 21; Cinderella will be his 17th fully-produced musical....
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