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...Canadian potter John Reeve created a community of Mingei-style potters in Canada, while New Zealand potter Len Castle, who had worked with Hamada in Japan, pioneered his country’s studio pottery movement...
...The local complaints about the exclusivity of the new DLC venture in Scotland seem to miss the castle’s original purpose....
...“New demographics, new nationalities. Let’s not be snobby about these things.” And, again, there are the financial returns....
...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...
...The King referred to his eldest son, Prince William, in his speech, saying that “the prince and princess of Wales” had recently made a successful public visit to Wales....
...In an attempt to win over William, Harry turned to Google, calling up images of their bearded ancestors Edward VII and George V in uniform. Why do beards get some people so hot under the collar?...
...So, too, did a new generation of unstuffy younger royals....
..., bringing you to a square where three rooms from Burrell’s Hutton Castle were recreated in stone boxes....
...The King continues to dispute claims that he ordered the killing of the rightful monarch Edward V and his younger brother Richard, then imprisoned in the Tower of London....
...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....
...A growing number of companies are now “training” potential vacationauts, relying mainly on facilities such as Star City outside Moscow....
...“The past is never dead,” William Faulkner said. “It’s not even past.” Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Towns were still small, few and far between when William the Conqueror surveyed his kingdom in 1086....
...He also says he wants to be a “champion” of Devon, the county over whose green hills Powderham Castle presides....
...It drew socialites from New York, among them Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt, who suffered from bouts of malaria....
...“It was completely, completely out of the water for me, initially,” says William Sullivan, who was Tehachapi’s warden until a few months ago....
...The Federal Reserve is ending the bulk of the remaining emergency facilities it rolled out last year to support financial markets through the coronavirus crisis....
...Before he left home, he’d been working — of all things — at a doggy daycare facility, but one day he realised he couldn’t do it anymore. “I was tired of the whole Babylon thing,” he tells me....
...apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V” and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...In 1797, William Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge at a house called Racedown Lodge, which sits at one end of the valley....
...Once Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, the Habsburg challenge became far more considerable....
...In the UK the Bank of England, an institution set up to finance William of Orange’s war with the French, upped its direct financing of government on Friday by extending the Treasury’s overdraft facility....
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...George Buckley: The MPC’s marginal tool of policy easing currently is the asset purchase facility....
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