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...When Barry Humphries died last week, a third ventricle burst in the hearts of many of his fellow Aussies. It was hard enough with Robert Hughes and Clive James gone....
...In the middle of the last century, Humphries, Germaine Greer, Clive James and Robert Hughes brought their lively minds from Down Under to Up Over....
...by Rebecca Humphries Humphries is an actress, and one of my closest friends, who went through a very public break-up when her boyfriend [who was a Strictly Come Dancing contestant] was photographed kissing...
...The full look, with the entire bed upholstered in blue silk damask (woven specially by Suffolk company Humphries Weaving), is an astonishing feat of craftsmanship and beauty....
...In 1960 she arrived in England, one of a group of Australian migrants which included Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes, Barry Humphries and Clive James....
...There have been many English translations of the Divine Comedy, at least 100, according to Dante scholar Robert Pogue Harrison....
...A couple of years later, he got his first job, as assistant to the precocious 20-year-old Humphry Davy at the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol....
...An elegant new tome from The Folio Society presents more than 100 of his verses, selected by the nature writer Robert Macfarlane, who describes Hardy’s poetry in his introductory essay as “a bitter, beautiful...
...Barry Humphries is a music hall artiste, on standby Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Paul Veenhuijzen, a Dutch businessman who is trying to sell 16th-century Earlshall Castle near St Andrews in Scotland for £5m, says his house reputedly has two ghosts, including Robert the Bruce....
...One supplier tried to “punt light-up wine glasses”, notes Mr Humphries. Another trend is the branded Christmas jumper....
...A recent “find” is interior designer Robert Kime’s renovated showroom. He did my house 15 years ago, but I hadn’t been to the showroom for ages and discovered it has all changed....
...Best of the week Extremism rises as experience of its results fades – Janan Ganesh The Brexit divide will be politics’ new cold war – Robert Shrimsley Burden of tackling climate change must be shared...
...Those in favour of the argument have pointed to the work of the economic historian Robert C Allen who argued that the industrial revolution began in Britain because of its relatively high wages compared...
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...Also on Maniera’s booth are a series of minimal box stools by the Swiss architects Trix & Robert Hausmann....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com; Twitter: @robertshrimsley Illustration by Lucas Varela...
...Letters in response to this column: Best to take the lead at the optimal moment / From Humphry Hatton, Dubai, UAE Clearing a route to corporate success / From Eric Beinhocker, London, UK...
...It’s not often that the presenter John Humphrys is taken aback, but when he asks Niklas what it did to him, knowing his father was “a monster”, the son responds that he was far worse than a monster — a well-educated...
...Steve McConchie CEO, Aptus Clinical Dr Harren Jhoti CEO and President, Astex Pharmaceuticals Dr Erik Miljan CEO, BioDivide Lin Bateson Director, Biopartner UK Geoff Davison CEO, Bionow Emily Humphrys...
...Campbell President, British Pain Society Piers Morgan Chief Executive, C4X Discovery Holdings Brenda Reynolds Chief Executive, Calchan Martin Frost Chief Executive, Cambridge Medical Robotics Emily Humphrys...
...and Robert Hughes, who left for Europe in the 1960s....
...“They bring knee pads and torches,” says Rostek, gesturing to mahogany chairs reupholstered in silk from the looms of Humphries of Sudbury, Suffolk....
...Humphries II....
...A superb alt-timeline thriller that recalls Robert Harris’s Fatherland....
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