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...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...“Edmund is perhaps the potter — and writer — most intimately associated with the iconic material of porcelain,” says Alun Graves, the V&A’s senior curator of ceramics and glass, 1900 to present day....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...The 63-year-old potter is working at semi-automated capacity at the Emma Bridgewater factory in Stoke-on-Trent, preparing thousands of commemorative earthenware pieces to mark the coronation, on May 6, of...
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombings and the 1998 lynching of James Byrd, Jr....
...that stripped the largely African-American population of any sense of city-ness, leaving only parking lots and budget strip malls....
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...“The deep-V recovery we saw in the second half of 2020 has continued into 2021, with sales activity continuing to strengthen across all territories,” said Simon Cleaver, CloudCall CEO....
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...Even Man v Food, in which a presenter who I fear will die young tackles “interesting eating challenges” (think a “Texan Dinner” involving a 72oz steak) proved grossly compelling....
...Mr Trump accused Democrats of being weak at the event at the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, his second in-person election rally in recent days....
...to give us the best chance possible for a V-shaped recovery”....
...At present, having finished a book on his creative process (Edge of Order, out November 27, $80, Clarkson Potter), he is concerned with the future of cities and how to make them more environmentally friendly...
...It’s an apt name for the Supreme Court’s latest terrible decision, the 5-4 ruling in Janus v AFSCME, which will defund what is left of America’s union movement....
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...“The kinds of rhetoric and language that Mr Trump has used is giving aid and comfort to our adversaries,” she told reporters at a news conference outside New York City....
...The Neues Museum is Berlin’s version of the V&A....
...McVeigh was the anti-government fanatic who blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people....
...After APL publicly announced the sale of its gas processing facility in Elk City, Oklahoma, its stock price jumped more than 31 per cent....
...For Scalia, it was an example of the sort of legal over-reach he had long opposed. Letter in response to this article: A statute’s ‘meaning’ is a social construct / From David Potter...
...The British Museum holds 2m artefacts there, including fragile finds from entire excavations, while the V&A houses the Beatrix Potter archive as well as collections of art, design and performance....
...The robes are not Harry Potter-style black sacks. They are Tudor-era belted blue coats with knee breaches or skirts....
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