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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...
...On the other side of town in Barlaston, Kate Turner, chief curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection, has retrieved a leather-bound ceramic pattern book from the company’s archives....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...seeking to downplay the risks and stoke an economic recovery....
...Overall “the recovery in the house market has so far been V-shaped”, said Hansen Lu, property economist at Capital Economics, a consultancy....
...believed his Supreme Court picks could reshape the court and pave the way for the reversal of Roe v Wade, which effectively legalised abortion....
...The final part of the V&A’s handsome and provocative exhibition also looks to the future, in the fantastical shape of the “Pop-Up Next”, a transforming vehicle designed with an electric chassis, a pod and...
...It comes a year after the company was forced to pay an extra £136m in taxes in the UK....
...Passing through the Mayfair store’s automatic doors — thought to be the oldest still in use in Britain — the atmosphere on the shop floor is half V&A, half Are You Being Served?...
...values diversity Who dares wins How can companies manage the uncertainties of the energy transition?...
...such as Gormley and the composer Michael Nyman, V&A director Tristram Hunt and Sir Charles Saumarez Smith, chief executive of the Royal Academy....
...Dealing with the deficit: The US seems ready to stoke a trade war over a current account deficit it describes as “unfair”. But in reality, argues Megan Greene, fairness doesn’t come into it....
...Now SpaceX owns the most powerful launcher in the world — although still not as mighty as the Saturn V rockets that sent Apollo astronauts to the moon — its importance to US strategic interests is likely...
...The V&A was born of a curious mix of Prince Albert’s reformist energy; the 1840s design school movement for education reform; and the East India Company collection....
...— A look back at Smoot-Hawley (Sarah Gardner and Scott Tong): As the legislation progressed, newspaper columnists and the nation’s economists became increasingly alarmed....
...And if it’s electrons and if it’s V-Power [petrol and diesel] and if it’s hydrogen, we want to be there for our customers” — Jessica Uhl, chief financial officer of Royal Dutch Shell, discusses the company...
...company at Sadler’s Wells....
...The FT’s David Gardner looks at the state of Turkish politics as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan bludgeons his way to one-man rule....
...(WSJ) Shifting sands in the Middle East Saudi Arabia’s warming ties with Russia surely speak of the waning regional influence of the US, writes the FT’s David Gardner....
...Herbert Minton, whose tiles line the floor of St George’s Hall, began trials in the family’s Stoke-on-Trent factory as early as 1828....
...‘Disobedient Objects’ runs at the V&A, London, until February 1 2015 Slideshow photographs: Getty; Ian Thomas/V&A; Mike Russell; Cat Mazza; The Scottish Gallery, Private Collection; David Cripps; Martin...
...If mishandled, it could undermine the constitutional settlement that brought Spain out of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco into a vibrant democracy and stoke demands for Basque and Catalan independence...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
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...George V, the present queen’s grandfather, was the last British monarch to visit Ireland, in 1911 when it was approaching the end of seven centuries of English colonial rule....
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