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...Nurse Mary Seacole throws her arms open in wide embrace. Glittery drag queen Marsha P Johnson, Afro-Brazilian resistance fighter Zumbi dos Palmares and emperor Haile Selassie compete to hold court....
...On this week’s Life & Arts podcast, presenter Lilah Raptopoulos is joined by the FT’s acting books editor Andrew Dickson and assistant arts editor Rebecca Watson to discuss the project....
...Reporting by: Emma Agyemang, Josephine Cumbo, Mary McDougall, Rafe Uddin and Arjun Neil Alim...
...Make-up, Jimmy Owen Jones at Julian Watson Agency using Byredo and Naturium. Photographer’s assistants, Akira Trees, Emma Ercolani and Rami Hassen. Stylist’s assistants, Connie Ng and Rachel Allison....
...Watson says the industry was prepared to spend $20bn upfront, because they believed scaling up could occur at marginal costs. “That’s turning out to be not the case,” Watson says....
...This time it’s Sir James Melville, influential diplomat and adviser to Mary Queen of Scots — and while the play is called Mary, it’s his painful journey that we watch unfold....
...It’s taken about 20 minutes, but I’ve finally managed to persuade Mary Spencer Watson to buy me a glass of Cheddar....
...The same goes for Rudolf’s 17-year-old mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera....
...(Gillian Tett) Hire women, boost returns Diversity can pay, according to Willis Towers Watson, which advises on $4.7tn (£3.95tn) in assets....
...The 1981 painting “Conversation”, by the late Jamaican artist Barrington Watson, is a powerful illustration of this idea....
...Mary is no impassive innocent, but a vulnerable adolescent dressed in her school uniform, shocked at the revelation....
...Mary-Anne Daly, chief executive of Cazenove Capital, the wealth advisory arm of Schroders, says: “It’s exciting to see the growth of wealthy women.”...
...She was a relative outsider at KPMG, having joined as chief risk officer in 2018 after more than six years at insurance broker Willis Towers Watson....
...Lyall has been a mainstay of Scottish traditional music groups from the Treacherous Orchestra, a crowded supergroup, to the punk-folk outfit Croft No. 5, and has toured with artists from Kate Rusby to Mary...
...Lost Cat, by Mary Gaitskill, Daunt Books, RRP£8.99, 120 pages Rebecca Watson is the FT’s assistant arts editor....
...I Go to Sleep, was female: Steve Watson is not....
...His tall, always elegantly dressed figure was a staple in opera houses and ballet venues across the world, and the many books he co-authored with Mary Clarke over the years remain classic texts....
...Todman, a scholar at Queen Mary, University of London, pulls together the story’s military, political, economic and social threads in masterly style....
...The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands Alexander Watson, Allen Lane/Basic Books, RRP £25/$32 If you read one military history book this year, make it Alexander Watson...
...There is a market for the off-the-charts dottiness gleefully portrayed in recent best-sellers about Princess Margaret and her batty grandmother Queen Mary....
...New technologies and their effects on how we live have long proved an inspiration for writers: whether it was Thomas Hardy and the industrial revolution, or Mary Shelley and electricity....
...This time the setting is Rwanda, 1981, and a tiny village where a Catholic schoolgirl claims to have seen the Virgin Mary....
...Mary Spencer Watson was unusually strong, even for a sculptor. “I knew her very well,” says Mike Bonfield, a local taxi driver and mayor of Swanage, of his celebrated former neighbour....
...“If you stand in the middle of the road, you get run over,” said Mary Creagh, a senior Labour MP....
...Mary Daly, the president of the San Francisco Fed who has called for increased spending on healthcare, infrastructure and education to tackle inequalities, said this week that the US was facing an “inflection...
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