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...She and her husband Tom bought a three-bedroom Victorian terraced house near Pittville Park five years ago, which they share with their 12-year-old son....
...In the liberated 1960s, alongside revivals of Art Nouveau and a vogue for the graphics of Aubrey Beardsley (who illustrated Wilde’s Salome) following a 1966 V&A retrospective, peacocking young men of various...
...Victorian face powders contained paralysis-inducing lead, while liquid rouge contained corrosive ammonia or potash. And it wasn’t just the ingredients that could ruin a woman, but social judgment....
...Young V&A reopens on July 1, vam.ac.uk/young...
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...The mawkish Victorian sentimentality oozes through. It appeared in the same year as Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The Victorians really did invent Christmas. Cards are hardly new....
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...What Cooper and her team don’t acknowledge is that they deploy the same tactics with their film. ‘Depp v Heard’ is available on Channel 4...
...Like one of the maestro’s own performances, it’s a tireless and captivating effort from Cooper....
...The Dictionary People demonstrates the contributions of those whose lives didn’t necessarily fit neatly into Victorian society....
...Whether stamped on the vinyl floor of a 1950s diner, tessellating down a Victorian hallway, or stencilled atop a Mini Cooper, the simple checkerboard pattern has always made an impact....
...This year, there’s a nautical theme featuring sirens and scallops inspired by Victorian shell grottoes....
...Herein lay one of the conflicts of late-Victorian Britain’s view of itself, which not even the fruity depths of the Christmas pudding could fudge forever....
...“When a kid draws a bird, they do a V. And you don’t want to ski alone, you want to be in a group....
...It’s an academic quarrel, but it seems to me that grouping these exquisite works with Victorian copies/pastiches — especially when Donatello’s most famous sculpture, the later, lithe, sensual bronze “David...
...“When you look back at pictures of the Victorian era, most gents had a moustache for a good reason,” adds Burton. “Shaving under your nose is not easy with a cut-throat.”...
...Another inside says the earliest recorded use of the premises as an inn comes from 1772, when it was called The Cooper’s Arms....
...Some of the Victorian paintings throughout the house are believed to be by Thomas Sidney Cooper....
...Neglect also meant Fairburn escaped Georgian and Victorian modernisation and expansion, allowing the trust to seek to return it to something like its Renaissance heyday....
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...In one, eight schoolboys cram into a red Mini Cooper, while in another a John Galliano-draped model holds a pair of swans up to one another, like two love birds....
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...In the centre, just off the main road, is a Victorian pub, the Neuadd Arms....
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