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...Ever since the Romans it is what has made Britain great....
...New York designers Roman and Williams have no such reservations. They bathe in history, reference and memory....
...William Dalrymple was a guest of La Dimora dei Semplici (see details below) and The Thinking Traveller (thethinkingtraveller.com) Find out about our latest stories first — follow FTWeekend on Instagram...
The founders of Roman and Williams and RW Guild take the festivities outside at their Montauk home
...Which post has been held by William Shawn, Tina Brown and David Remnick? Which post has been held by Alasdair Milne, Michael Checkland and Mark Thompson?...
...The Golden Road, a new book by William Dalrymple coming out in September, focuses on the ancient maritime highway linking the Roman empire and India in the 1st and 2nd century CE through the Red Sea....
...So evocative is the presence of these trees that William Wordsworth dedicated a mesmerising and enchanting poem to them (see below), and the Romantic painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicted them in “Pine...
...but it’s directed by Roman Polanski....
...Crossings over the Thames date back to Roman times, though happily the custom of displaying the heads of traitors on London Bridge ended in the seventeenth century....
...Potts, a statuesque headmaster in his mid-forties, watched uneasily from the mezzanine over the central lobby of Newman Roman Catholic College in Oldham....
...Everyone from the Pharaohs to the Romans mixed tin with metals such as lead, copper and bismuth to create everyday objects for the table....
...As William Dalrymple in the foreword to Journeys writes, “Don’s war photography is all about noise and dust and anger and fury, while here we are transported to a marble world of stillness and silence.”...
...One of Asia’s most senior Roman Catholic clerics is meeting officials in Beijing, as a deal between the Vatican and China over the church’s role in the country appears to be fraying....
...This year, the Roman calendar is jam-packed with cultural happenings....
...The piece features a laser-etched Union Jack on the platine and Roman numerals on the dial — a first for the model. It will be sold via a raffle at the fair, with profits donated to the alliance....
...In the last years of the Roman Empire an elegant villa stood on Gallo Lungo, apparently a favourite destination of Tiberius. Following the fall of Rome, Li Galli became a hideout for privateers....
...Verger’s descriptions lingered with the dust motes, like flecks of gold in the shards of Roman light. He drew a picture of the baths from another time, when they were filled by 3,000 people....
...It was in 2017, while Phoebe was painting the Cholmondeley children in William Kent’s Palladian interior, the great Stone Hall, that the idea for the exhibition began to unfurl....
...In response to questions, Bruni said this week that the Holy See would like to establish “a liaison office in Beijing, which would facilitate communication and enhance co-operation” between the Roman Catholic...
...Sr Susan Francois, treasurer of the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace, a Roman Catholic order based in the US and UK, said that whether it was through project financing or general corporate lending, Citigroup...
...The New York museum keeps running up the score: overhauling its Greek and Roman galleries in 2007, the American wing two years later and the Islamic wing in 2011....
...This week, US federal prosecutors charged two in connection with operating the service: Roman Storm and Roman Semenov....
...At its inception in 1694, the Bank had only 17 staff and was seen as a temporary solution for subsidising the war (1689-97) that William of Orange fought against Louis XIV....
...Anna Grzymała-Busse makes a convincing case that we should go several centuries back and look at the way that rivalries between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire and other trends framed the emergence...
...In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oberon and Puck use wild pansy to make Demetrius fall in love; in Roman mythology, Cupid struck the flower with an arrow, transforming it into an amorous potion....
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