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...Designed by Walter Aubrey Thomas, the Royal Liver Building was the tallest office building in Europe when it opened in 1911, as the headquarters of the Royal Liver insurance group....
...A good example is Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane, a late 1960s-set period drama that stars Elizabeth Banks as Joy, a pregnant housewife with a condition that could kill her if she reaches full term....
...antiquarian and author of Brief Lives, John Aubrey....
...Ruth Scurr is author of ‘John Aubrey: My Own Life’ (Chatto & Windus) The Witches: Salem, 1692, by Stacy Schiff, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRPRRP£20/Little, Brown, RRP$32, 512 pages Photograph: Allstar Letter...
...John Aubrey: My Own Life, by Ruth Scurr, Chatto & Windus, RRP£25 An experimental “act of scholarly imagination” brings to life the 17th-century antiquarian and author of Brief Lives, John Aubrey....
...No one understands this convergence better than Phyllis Lambert, daughter of Canadian business magnate Samuel Bronfman, who was the owner of the Seagram Company’s liquor empire....
...(Wall Street Journal) - What the BoE needs: I would give the palm to Mark Carney, says Samuel Brittan....
...a fascinating coda, there were always subterranean Burne-Jones aficionados – Evelyn Waugh, John Betjeman – for whom the artist stood in the visionary English tradition stretching from William Blake and Samuel...
...Phyllis Richardson is the author of ‘XS Green: Big Ideas, Small Buildings’ (Thames & Hudson, £14.95)...
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