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...Famous attendees of Ye Old Cheshire Cheese have included PG Wodehouse and Charles Dickens, who obliquely mentions it in A Tale of Two Cities....
...The well-preserved brick building, which also hides a secret garden, hosts exhibitions too: Melmoth the Wanderer, which explores the texts behind Charles Robert Maturin’s gothic novel, is currently on view...
...We need to look beyond the intentions of farmers, hunters, zookeepers and others, and focus on the consequences of their actions....
...Fans of Michael Symmons Roberts will have Ransom in March (Jonathan Cape), while Kayo Chingonyi’s A Blood Condition is based on themes of inheritance (Chatto & Windus, April)....
...It is a dense mass of urbanity positioned above thin air, situated not on the bedrock of Manhattan but above the tracks of the railway line that runs beneath....
...Men such as Frederick Cook and Robert Peary clung desperately to their claims, often demonstrably false, even as they branded their expeditions indelibly with themselves....
...Rich sex pests of all shapes and sizes.”...
...On the one hand maleness is an authentic expression of strength, fortitude and whatever other characteristics might be ascribed to the identity of a working man....
...As late as the 19th century, when Christ Church was educating future prime ministers such as Robert Peel and William Gladstone, the governing body consisted of just the dean and eight canons, who paid themselves...
...There is a snobbish letter in Toby Faber’s book from John Sparrow, warden of All Souls, writing about Charles Monteith and his “real keenness about present day literature and knowledge of it and flair for...
...Miniature painting in England was unique in being dominated by two artists to the exclusion of all others....
...The biggest setting holds 10,000, the smallest has the capacity of a fair-sized club; some you stumble upon, others you seek out and all of them fill up fast....
...Similarly, Kuttner suggests that the loss of good manufacturing jobs was all to do with the rise of predatory capitalism and liberal trade. This also is untrue....
...and could be found printed on bracelets sold at Christian festivals. But its roots lie in 19th-century Kansas and a series of sermons by Charles Sheldon, a champion of racial equality....
...One fear for individuals who consider themselves affluent, but not plain rich, is Corbyn’s plan to increase income taxes to 45 per cent on earnings above £80,000 and to 50 per cent on earnings above £123,000...
...On the other hand, he’s so palatable that he’s been made a member of the three-person selection panel for the FCA role (alongside Treasury mandarin Charles Roxburgh and the ubiquitous Baroness Sarah Hogg...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic Photographs: Robert Stainforth/Alamy; Richard Baker/Corbis/Getty Images; Forbes Massey; Heatherwick Studio; Charles Bowman/Getty Images; Harrison/Topical...
...The New York in which Diller and Scofidio launched themselves now looks like a mesmerising and alien world of late Warhol and New Wave, post-punk and Postmodernism....
...Society has moved on and the Church is struggling to catch up. All is not yet lost....
...Robert Morris is somebody who 99.9% of Americans have no idea who this person is, other than maybe they’ve heard of Robert Morris University....
...If successful, many, or even all, of Liberia’s schools could be outsourced to the same company. Other African countries were watching....
...By the time of his death in 1852 at the age of 40, he had built three cathedrals, plus dozens of other churches and houses, and had designed the interiors for the Palace of Westminster and the tower for...
...Charles I and the People of England, by David Cressy, OUP, RRP£30/$49.95 Cressy is the author of several delightful books on the social history of Tudor and Stuart England that draw on curious material...
...On the other, the uni-tasking refuseniks who insist that multitaskers are deluding themselves, and that focus is essential. Who is right?...
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