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ReviewNon-Fiction
Alone on the high seas — two books on the allure of solitary sailing
...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...
September 19, 2023
Special ReportInnovation in Energy
In photos: Orkney isles lead the way in wind and tidal power
...Williams is just one of many Orcadians to have taken advantage of the Scottish islands’ natural resources to fuel a green revolution in energy supply....
February 7, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewFT Books Essay
A Pipeline Runs Through It — the golden age of oil
...One solution he backed was for the British government to take a controlling stake in Anglo-Persian Oil, a company founded by the English entrepreneur William Knox D’Arcy that was eventually to become BP....
August 17, 2022
HTSI
Gross domestic products: British art pottery so ugly it’s highly sought after
...represented at Walker’s Polka Dot Antiques by an elaborate, cherub-adorned jug ($5,500), alongside a Martin Brothers figurine ($16,000) and vase ($12,500), a Brannam bowl with a woven design by Archibald Knox...
February 28, 2021
The Aesthete
Philip Hewat-Jaboor on the allure of peonies and losing sleep over a lion’s head
...The person I rely on for personal grooming and wellbeing is my Alexander technique practitioner, Helen Cartier-Knox....
September 25, 2019
Letter
Second amendment can be traced back to a British ‘gun-control programme’
...In 1777, when a British victory appeared most likely, William Knox, undersecretary of state for the colonies, wrote: “[t]he Militia Laws should be repealed and none suffered to be re-enacted, the Arms of...
March 14, 2018
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Life & Arts
Going down? What the future holds for the department store
...Liberty began by importing silks and moved through Aesthetic Style and Arts & Crafts, collaborating with William Morris, EW Godwin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Archibald Knox to create interiors, a cocktail...
August 22, 2018
Life & Arts
Frieze New York opens with strong sales in the lower price range
...Other key sales above the mid-market level of $50,000 included William N....
May 3, 2018
ReviewFT Books Essay
The invention of Scotland
...Those who fill the remaining Presbyterian pulpits now tend to be accommodating and liberal, their magazine Life and Work closer to the Guardian than to John Knox’s adamantine precepts....
February 8, 2018
UK banks
New-generation UK banks challenge with technology
...Meanwhile, RBS is in talks to ditch plans to carve out 300 branches to form a new rival, Williams & Glyn, after a protracted failure to sell the business....
March 10, 2017
Anjana Ahuja
Tissues, organs and the long, dark history of anatomy
...In the 1820s when renowned Edinburgh anatomist Robert Knox found his supply of bodies running low, he began a shadowy association with William Burke and William Hare....
January 9, 2017
Life & Arts
Georgian London’s most famous gallery to reopen at Somerset House
...But the design of its home — the north wing of a neoclassical building on the Strand, constructed between 1776 and 1801 by Sir William Chambers — no longer meets its needs....
July 23, 2016
Life & Arts
Inside The Ned, Soho House’s £200m hotel in the heart of the City
...This door was famously featured pretending to be Fort Knox in James Bond’s third outing, Goldfinger (1964), although only as a still image, the actual filming was done in the studio....
April 13, 2017
Digital banking
Atom Bank attracts early interest from mobile customers
...Tandem, founded by technology entrepreneur Ricky Knox, received its banking licence at the end of last year. Starling and Monzo have gained licences in the past couple of months....
September 14, 2016
FT AlphavilleKadhim Shubber
It’s no fun when Amex throws your startup a Curve ball
...Its backers include Taavet Hinrikus, who founded Transferwise, the bank bashing remittances company, and Ricky Knox, founder of mobile-only bank Tandem, whose crowdfunding round we covered earlier this week...
May 25, 2016
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
ReviewLife & Arts
‘The Silk Roads: A New History of the World’, by Peter Frankopan
...There are many pages on an Anglo-Australian oil prospector named William Knox D’Arcy, whereas Attaturk, Jinnah and Ho Chi Minh all go unmentioned in the book (and both Mao and Gandhi get one passing reference...
April 15, 2016
Life & Arts
Lincoln: a Magna Carta city
...The huge castle was enclosed from 1068 for William the Conqueror on the site of 160 destroyed Saxon houses. No right of representation there....
March 6, 2015
US & Canadian companies
RBS makes preparations for Citizens’ exit
...He was awarded Harvard’s prestigious Frank Knox Fellowship, which included graduate study at the London School of Economics and travel in India....
May 13, 2014
Retail & Consumer industry
Clipper fleet flagship to lead UK race for trade and tourism
...Clipper Venture’s chief executive William Ward told the FT: “We have a full crew for the next race....
July 31, 2013
Currencies
Mini masterpieces in your pocket
..., director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, ceramicist Edmund de Waal and Lord Waldegrave, former cabinet minister and now provost of Eton College....
July 4, 2013
Oil & Gas industry
Oil majors: Buyouts on the way as companies run legal risks to venture north
...Tucked away in the south of Kurdistan, the oilfield was first drilled in the early 1900s by George Reynolds, the oil pioneer and William Knox D’Arcy’s head of exploration....
December 9, 2012
Life & Arts
The name’s Wilson, Michael Wilson
...Wilson has made a series of gifts in the form of monographic portfolios by outstanding international photographers, including Bruce Davidson, Taryn Simon, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and William Eggleston....
October 12, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
She Wolves
...Defiance of this notion began with Matilda, grand-daughter of William the Conqueror, named as his heir by her father, Henry I, after the feckless young Prince William drowned in 1120....
October 8, 2010
UK coalition government
‘Third world’ gibe mars start of papal visit
...He was also introduced to Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, and Alex Salmond, Scotland’s first minister who has praised the Catholic Church’s role in shaping...
September 16, 2010
Climate change
Queen’s birthday honours: Selected recipients
...Barbara Knox, actress. Vicki Michelle, actress. Anne Reid, actress. Elma Rendall, customer service officer, Royal Bank of Scotland. Gary Speed, footballer....
June 11, 2010

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