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...Byrd: The Golden Renaissance Stile Antico This year marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, a leading composer of the English Renaissance....
...A new paper by Thomas Drechsel, from the University of Maryland — ‘Estimating the Effects of Political Pressure on the Fed: A Narrative Approach with New Data’ has taken a look at this dynamic....
...A quarter of a century later, in 1689, William III, representing himself and Queen Mary as anti-absolutists, brought members of the House of Commons into the Abbey by way of demonstrating that his would...
...The Fraud is Smith’s first historical novel, taking as its inspiration a trial that commanded public attention and provoked riots in the street: that of Arthur Orton aka Roger Tichborne aka Thomas Castro...
...The only Englishmen in Whatmore’s cast of characters, Edward Gibbon and Thomas Paine, both spent the most creative portions of their lives overseas....
...Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses, by Aarathi Prasad, William Collins £20, 368 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...London’s annual showcase of local and global craft this year follows hot on the heels of the coronation of King Charles III on May 6....
...She lived there full-time with her husband, Thomas Pablo Croquet (aka Thomas Mars), lead singer of the indie pop band Phoenix, and their two daughters, Romy and Cosima, until they moved back to New York...
...Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams William Collins £25, 413 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...But what kind of king will Charles III be?...
...Chromes edited by Thomas Weski, Winston Eggleston and William Eggleston III William Eggleston’s colour-drenched shots of everyday scenes have influenced everyone from Juergen Teller to Martin Parr....
...“Coronation meadows are an incredible legacy,” says Hugo Rittson-Thomas, photographer and author of Wildflowers for the Queen....
...He was the first Polynesian to visit England and became an instant celebrity, meeting King George III, attending the state opening of parliament and travelling the country with Joseph Banks....
...Before rehearsals started, lead actor Arthur Hughes came to the house Doran shared with Sher to discuss the part....
...Charles III, the new king, is known to be more of a polo fan. Transition is something of a theme in this edition of the newsletter....
...Napoleon III’s portraitist was not Manet, the era’s radical figure painter, but the tame Franz Winterhalter, also lured to Britain by Prince Albert....
...Damian Williams, US attorney for the Southern District of New York, described the alleged crimes as “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”....
...The King’s lawyers stressed that this was not an admission of guilt and that the allegations against him were perpetuated by royal propagandist William Shakespeare, the Omid Scobie of his day....
...These include a 1705 clock by Thomas Tompion, the most prominent maker of his day, and a mahogany-encased barometer by George Adams from the time of George III....
...Correspondence regarding the Levant trade between the Ottoman sultan Mehmed III and Elizabeth I was in English, Latin and Arabic. Some of these mercantile careers ended in real riches....
...Sex, art and religion are its themes, obsessively circled in a centuries-spanning narrative told in a breathless register somewhere between William Blake and Arthur C Clarke....
...Shultz’s death was announced on Sunday by the Hoover Institution, where he was the Thomas W and Susan B Ford Distinguished Fellow....
...they are being spied upon by male newspaper proprietors, with William Jackson of The Morning Post peering from behind a tree....
...Thomas Sankara arrives as every revolutionary should: with a guitar on his back and cheques that bounce....
...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...
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