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ReviewBiography and memoir
The Maverick — George Weidenfeld, publisher to saints and sinners
...No matter: A World Restored by Henry Kissinger supplied an early sign of what Thomas Harding calls the publisher’s “remarkable perspicacity”....
September 27, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
The National Portrait Gallery reopens with a fabulous transformation
...It now hangs dramatically opposite conceptualist photographer Thomas Struth’s “Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II” (2011) in a darkly receding Windsor Castle drawing room — a tour de...
June 17, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
UK property
Apollo billionaire Leon Black buys £21m luxury home in London
...The Grade II-listed house dates to 1827 and, like its neighbours on the garden square, was designed by master builder Thomas Cubitt....
November 18, 2021
The Weekend Essay
Simon Schama: can Charles III’s coronation speak to modern Britain?
...Five pageants punctuated the day-long procession: one which emphasised her as a peacemaker descending from the union of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York that had ended the Wars of the Roses; another which...
May 6, 2023
UK politics
Liz Truss: Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister
...When Queen Elizabeth II died on Truss’s third day in office, she struggled to find a register equal to the national mood....
October 20, 2022
The Elizabethan age
A history of majesty: the Queen’s portraits across 70 years
...His pop art “Elizabeth II” in candy colours, repeated like postage stamps, flatters and updates the royal brand....
September 8, 2022
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Watches & Jewellery
Boodles puts Liverpool’s jewellery history on display with exhibition
...The story begins on the opposite, north-east coast, in Hull, where clockmaker Thomas Kirk set up a business in 1798 that expanded into jewellery and silverware....
October 7, 2022
Robin Lane Fox
Funereal wreaths and other royal reinventions
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
September 30, 2022
FT Magazine
This Joshua Reynolds painting is a national treasure. Why is Britain struggling to keep it?
...When Henry Huntington, the Californian railway magnate, sailed the Atlantic with his wife Arabella on the Aquitania in 1921, the couple stayed in the Gainsborough Suite....
February 23, 2023
Letter
Letter: Is UK joining Poland and Hungary in netherworld?
...Isn’t that what Henry II of England is meant to have said, ahead of the murder of Thomas à Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Throughout the ages power resents constraint on its exercise....
December 13, 2021
The Art Market
Galleries expand their reach in London
...The 15,000 sq ft, Grade II-listed Victorian building will take two years to convert into a 21st-century gallery space, including measures to minimise its carbon footprint, Wirth says....
December 9, 2021
House & Home
Henley-on-Thames feels the strain of an influx of homebuyers
...Henley was established in the 12th century, when King Henry II bought the riverside plot for “the making of buildings”....
September 8, 2021
FT Globetrotter
Rambles from the Ritz: three walks exploring the environs of a London landmark
...Turn right up South Audley Street and follow it to Grosvenor Square, admiring the 19th-century Japonisant-Flemish extravaganza that is Thomas Goode and the almost New England simplicity of the Grosvenor...
September 27, 2021
Travel
William Dalrymple on Sicily’s Islamic past
...On Roger II’s death, his treasurer, Thomas Brown, returned to England as Chancellor of the Exchequer to Henry II, where he tried to introduce these numerals but without success....
January 9, 2021
FT GlobetrotterPortrait of a park
Portrait of a park: Green Park — an architectural and social history of London
...It could, with the addition of a tower or two, be an apartment building on Central Park West and was in fact designed by an American architect, Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings, the architect of Henry...
January 4, 2021
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
Prince Andrew and other royal car-crash interviews
...Henry II, can we go back to this party you attended with the men who murdered Thomas Becket? I never went to a party with them....
November 20, 2019
FT Magazine
Belgium’s reckoning with a brutal history in Congo
...The cleaners who came for King Leopold II in Brussels this July knew what to do....
November 13, 2020
House & Home
London’s East End Eden: a horticultural history
...My house sits within the former nursery of Leonard Gurle, an arboriculturist who supplied fruit trees to Charles II....
August 7, 2020
City InsiderPatrick Jenkins
Noakes’ election triumphalism is a tweet too far
...That’s a pretty close echo of the (in)famous Henry II plea “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”, a comment that spurred the killing of Archbishop Thomas Becket....
December 20, 2019
Robert Shrimsley
‘Just tourists with broadswords’ — Skripal-style excuses for assassins
...Henry II....
September 14, 2018
Andrew Hill
Leaders are wise to listen before speaking out
...(as Henry II did about Thomas Becket in the 12th century) and find he has accidentally ordered the assassination of the Archbishop of Canterbury....
November 12, 2018
FT AlphavilleThomas Hale
Nothing But the Shirt on Your Back
...For anyone still in doubt, please note that Henry Kissinger has just produced a long read on artificial intelligence....
July 11, 2018
FT SeriesWomenswear Spring/Summer 2019 shows
London Fashion Week SS19 highlights
...The setlist at House of Holland Aside from the neon sequinned sports-luxe clothing, what really struck a chord at Henry Holland’s SS19 show was the music....
September 16, 2018
Personal Finance
Financial new year resolutions in a tweet
...However, Thomas Eyles, director of Lathe & Co Wealth Advisers, cautions that those holding cash risk losing out on any share price rises....
January 4, 2019
Due Diligence
Cannabis and markets: High times at Tilray Premium content
...Until the financial crisis, private equity investors such as Blackstone hewed closely to the “buyout” playbook pioneered by Henry Kravis and George Roberts when they founded KKR in the 1970s....
September 20, 2018

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