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...the colonial commissioner for Cyprus realised the island had been overlooked, he phoned the Empire Marketing Board on December 23 to demand that the pudding, to be ceremoniously delivered to King George V,...
...“A late imperial architecture . . . suddenly becomes [Ghanaian], through Nkrumah’s Africanisation policy,” says the V&A’s Christopher Turner, who has curated the exhibition alongside Biamah-Ofosu and Bushra...
...Imperial Tobacco was acquired by Hanson Trust in 1986 and the tobacco side was demerged in 1996, continuing as Imperial Brands....
...Both Sheikh and Pakistani artist Zahoor ul Akhlaq studied at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, and were astounded by the V&A’s originals after muted reproductions at home....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...As his touring exhibition Wonderful Things – which first showed at the V&A in 2019 – opens at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles next month, a new selection of Walker’s works will also be available to...
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...Or being given a Mk V Spitfire and doing a village fête display,” says Romain excitedly. “It’s fantastic.”...
...Somewhere, near the bottom, is an imperial Roman commercial outpost. If this unsentimental place has a hero, it is Dick Whittington, four times mayor of London....
...Neither Ukraine nor the European countries which support Kyiv are safe as long as Putin is in power and the Kremlin clings to its imperial ambitions....
...The astonishing variety of bird species to be observed in the National Park of Monfragüe (including vultures, imperial eagles, and the rare black stork) has kick-started a trend in ornithological tourism...
...— she swallows the “v” so that it could as easily be an invitation to die....
...It’s the holiday season in Moscow, where the city has put up symbols of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine outside the entrance to Gorky Park: the Latin letters Z, V and O in throbbing neon, looming over...
...Procurement rules; imperial measures; it doesn’t need to withstand real scrutiny, they just need to be able to say it without laughing....
...What you cannot see in the show is that George, future King George V, had a dragon and a tiger tattooed on his arm to commemorate the trip....
...At the request of King George V, it mounted the 520-carat Cullinan I diamond, which is also known as the Great Star of Africa, in the royal sceptre....
...Known as Bertie in the family, he was the second son of King George V and expected his elder brother, known as David to the family, to become king....
...Other pieces owned by Woolf will feature in the V&A show....
...A subtle nod to imperial glory, or equestrian gentility? No: a fat guy who couldn’t be bothered. Sunak takes the opposite tack....
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...The artist charged with putting V-A-C on the map is Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson....
...But economists, also worried about rising inflation, are not optimistic that the scale and delivery of the planned stimulus will be enough to prime a “V-shape” recovery from the world’s biggest consumer...
...Some £300m was earmarked for “arm’s length body estate maintenance” at museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Tate Liverpool and the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, the Treasury had said...
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