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...Founded in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1951 by warlock and screenwriter Cecil Williamson, it moved to the Cornish coast in 1960....
...Chess: 2344 Four-time Australian champion Cecil Purdy composed this puzzle and gave the answer as one and three-quarter moves....
...Gormley recently suggested that a statue of Cecil Rhodes that has long been at the centre of controversy at Oriel College, Oxford, should be turned to face the wall; the college’s decision to keep the colonialist...
...The Courtenays arrived with Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1154 and one forebear, Richard Courtenay, was buried with Henry V in Westminster Abbey, after dying of dysentery in Henry’s tent at the Siege of Harfleur...
...Roy Strong, once director of London’s National Portrait Gallery and the V&A, has about 480 items from his former home for sale at Chorley’s Auctioneers in Gloucestershire on Tuesday....
...Cecil Beaton acquired one of his satin jumpsuits for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s costume collection and included his work in the groundbreaking 1971 exhibition Fashion: An Anthology....
...When he came to the V&A, he saw it as “a place to which the upper classes could go without losing face”....
...Dr John H V Gilbert Vancouver, BC, Canada...
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
...In the case of Great Britain, this runs from the stirring words in Shakespeare’s Henry V, through to the pangs of Brexit. KM Choy Singapore...
...To the Grosvenor family he added Wellesleys, Walpoles, Balfours, Cecils, Stuart-Wortleys, Lytteltons and Talbots to his widening connections....
...On display at the V&A is a panel of floral marquetry attributed to Marc Simon that once decorated the ship’s deluxe Beauvais suite....
...When Cecil Sharp, founder of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, started giving lectures on the folk tradition, he invited dancers from Canning Town to attend, to offer illustrative demonstrations....
...She also treated her own body like a canvas, swathing some areas in grey and leaving the great white V of a neck exposed....
...The clock was the talk of last year’s Masterpiece, and is now owned by the V&A. How does this diffident, shy character work such magic?...
...For years Cecil John Rhodes, the Victorian-era mining magnate and politician, lorded it over South Africa, building an empire and amassing a fortune while treating Africans with disdain....
...The acquisition of Gill’s images was made possible through funds generated by the royalties on Cecil Beaton’s photographs, generously donated to the museum in 1968 and again in 1980: a wonderful example...
...Shakespeare would later praise Essex directly as “the General of our gracious Empress” in Henry V, enshrining his connection with these English kings....
...“The [London-based] V&A and the Crafts Council have them but, other than that, in the regions we’re very significant.”...
...So does the Imperial War Museum, with an exciting show devoted to the war photography of Cecil Beaton....
...David Thomson is author of ‘The Big Screen’ (Allen Lane, £25) ‘Hollywood Costume’ is at the V&A, London, October 20-January 27 2013, www.vam.ac.uk...
...Subtitled Fifty Years of Photography in Britain and timed to coincide with the V&A’s forthcoming British Design 1948-2012, Island Stories is a very rich show....
...In the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s portraits of the Queen, we observe times changing through infinitesimally variant inflections of gesture and pose....
...Described recently by the V&A curator Susannah Brown as “contemplative and timeless”, it was first exhibited at Sir Roy Strong’s great Cecil Beaton exhibition in 1968....
...The death of Jonathan Cecil last year was a cruel loss to all audiences who admired his understated brilliance as a comic actor....
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