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...No modern celebrity would open their book with the candour of Harriette Wilson, a British Regency courtesan, in her bestselling The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Written by Herself (1825): “I shall not say...
...Early on — hilariously — we hear a question from radio host Roy Plomley on an ancient edition of Desert Island Discs. “Your childhood was a little unsettled, wasn’t it?”...
...Among them were biographies of George Washington, by Woodrow Wilson and others, reminiscences of Old New York by Charles H Haswell, and of India by a Lt Col Pollock....
...Her dramatic vibrato has often been compared to Roy Orbison, he of the immortal “Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)”....
...A graduate of Central Saint Martins, where he studied menswear under Louise Wilson, he first garnered attention at his namesake label before being made creative director of Dunhill in 2008....
...Those were the days when what Harold Wilson called “a tightly-knit group of politically motivated men” could bring a whole industry to a standstill....
...Henry and Wilson work beautifully together: Henry is both gloriously sassy and poignantly awkward, at one point tripping over her own feet in her haste to make a point; Wilson (who took over from Michael...
...Jenkins was chancellor from 1967 to 1970 in the Labour government of Harold Wilson....
...As a Labour MP, Williams served in both the Harold Wilson and James Callaghan governments, leading to her being tipped as Britain’s first female prime minister....
...Williams — who formed the “Gang of Four” along with David Owen, Roy Jenkins and Bill Rodgers — won the Crosby by-election for the SDP in 1981....
...Then came Roy Hodgson, a long-term Englishman émigré who spoke fluent Swedish and Italian....
...Tim Wilson, a backbench MP, warned this week that post-coronavirus protectionism would “make our nation and people poorer”....
...Federal prosecutor Richard Roy said in a statement: “We are pleased that after entering into a facilitation conference supervised by the Court of Quebec, we were able to reach an agreement that is fair and...
...Even Romare Bearden and Roy DeCarava came.” It was at Cinandre that Smith also met Grace Jones, who would have her signature flattop styled there....
...By its end, a Labour home secretary, Roy Jenkins, had produced a great wave of liberalising legislation to sweep aside the Victorian hypocrisy of social repression....
...She wanted Robert Armstrong dismissed, because he was friendly with Heath and Roy Jenkins, as well as Robin Butler because he had once attended a Private Eye lunch (she hated the magazine)....
...Edward Wilson-Lee captures Colon’s book-buying sprees across Europe in The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books ; by the end of his life, Columbus’s son had amassed about 15,000 volumes....
...A year later, after he had resigned in frustration at Callaghan’s and Wilson’s reluctance to devalue sterling, my father received a phone call from Roy Jenkins....
...Nilanjana Roy Novelist and FT contributor “A grieving woman becomes the custodian of a Great Dane, also in mourning for his own reasons, in an apartment that doesn’t allow dogs.”...
...Managing Director, Veka Katie Hale President, Sutton Coldfield Chamber of Commerce Paul Bennett Chair, Shropshire Business Board Nick Brown Chair, Urban Growth Company Ben Henry Partner, Jonas Roy...
...Rab Butler, Michael Heseltine, Denis Healey, Roy Jenkins and several others were fully formed figures as they sought and failed to become leaders....
...His first orchestra session, which followed six months later, featured the muted trumpet of Roy Eldridge and Ben Webster on tenor sax, the first of many great soloists to work in Wilson’s studio bands....
...“Tell me about a complicated man,” begins Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey....
...In his recording studio there he has worked with veterans of the old days (Graham Nash, Roy Harper, Roger Waters) and produced records by simpatico contemporaries such as Father John Misty....
...“With health needing to rise by 1 per cent per annum just to keep up with an ageing population, other areas of the budget will be squeezed,” said Graeme Roy of Strathclyde university’s Fraser of Allander...
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