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...Hilary Mantel called it “the ultimate edition of Wolf Hall”....
...As a professor of Renaissance history at Manchester Metropolitan University who had worked as an adviser on the televised version of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, she was well prepared to establish her credentials...
...Not exactly fit for the V&A, but it worked just fine in a foyer around the corner from the Gare du Nord....
...If you’re down with the next big trend, and have any plans to entertain this winter, this means a statement fireplace – be it a contemporary heater or a traditional antique mantel – as increasingly we’re...
...The owners, the Hurault de Vibraye, were politicians rather than royalty, and the aesthetic reminds me of the way Hilary Mantel portrays Thomas Cromwell’s exquisite taste in Wolf Hall....
...‘Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear’ is at the V&A, April 16 2016-March 12 2017 Photographs: Sam Shaw/Shaw Family Archives/Getty Images; Catwalking.com...
...The Mantel v Middleton affair, the snooty against the sublime, provides an object lesson in what happens when a member of the intellectual classes has the audacity to comment on a subject that provokes public...
...This is how he appears in Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, which show Henry as a vital young man who becomes increasingly bloodthirsty in his desperation...
...One commentator suggested that, next year, rather than our traditional opening cricket match of an Authors XI v the Rajasthan Royals, we should hold a match pitching an Extremists XI v the Rajasthan Fundamentalists...
...I have also written history in the present tense (The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England) and day-by-day history (1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory)....
...This resides, very simply, in the wealth of powerful narratives – brilliantly exploited in Hilary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall – with larger-than-life characters, striving for self-determination in an age of...
...Rather than the corrupt bureaucrat depicted by earlier historians and writers, Mantel’s Cromwell is a worldly fixer with a post-feudal outlook....
...Mantel clock Benjamin Lewis Vuilliamy Small bracket clocks produced in the early 19th century are often referred to as mantel clocks because they were so often sited on the mantel-shelf above a fireplace...
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