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...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...The 63-year-old potter is working at semi-automated capacity at the Emma Bridgewater factory in Stoke-on-Trent, preparing thousands of commemorative earthenware pieces to mark the coronation, on May 6, of...
...Howell and England’s No1 woman Jovanka Houska appear daily on chess24.com, Jones comments live while he plays amateurs, while Simon Williams and Lawrence Trent have their own online shows....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Working with Edwards and Lockett, a family-run business in Stoke-on-Trent, Coles created a line of pieces based on traditional blue-and-white bone china designs....
...Simons’ own interest in the arts was sparked at her Stoke-on-Trent primary school by a teacher who set up a youth dance group. It built her confidence and encouraged her creative thinking....
...Despite meeting Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms in 1521, he was unable to prevent the Reformation schism, though he was largely responsible for initiating the Council of Trent to reform Roman Catholicism...
...These factors mean that what was supposed to be a V-shaped trajectory in AxJ would look more U-shaped....
...Tristram Hunt, formerly a Labour MP and now director of the V&A Museum, added: “He’s a clever man but he also put the hours in....
...And I think actually when you look at the big picture the whole election, obviously number one is Labour v Tory, as always. Yeah....
...Stoke-on-Trent has been producing beautiful plates for 200 years. So it works for us.”...
...fabrication business and a historical trust, which aims to reignite the furnaces and maintain the foundry as a working business and is backed by artists such as Gormley and the composer Michael Nyman, V&...
...was in Welwyn Garden City to help usher in the Blair landslide; in 2005, Bethnal Green and Bow hoping to defend Oona King from George Galloway; and, in 2010 and 2015, my former constituency of Stoke-on-Trent...
...“The Labour party will move swiftly to ensure Stoke-on-Trent Central continues to be represented by a strong and capable Labour MP,” he said....
...For different reasons, Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent Central are potentially rocky seats....
...Mr Hunt was Shadow Education Secretary under Ed Miliband despite only being elected in 2010 as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central. A formal announcement is expected from the museum later on Friday morning....
...Photographs: Rebecca Lupton; Christopher Furlong/360; Craven Dunill Jackfield; V&A/DeMorgan...
...Disobedient Objects opens with a suffragette teacup and saucer, produced in 1909 by potters HM Williamson in Stoke-on-Trent....
...This may complicate life for makers of driverless cars: because of legal uncertainties and hugely variable driving environments, “self-driving” is likely to be offered as an optional setting for decades...
...When we were playing the Roses matches [Lancashire v Yorkshire] we’re talking 30,000. In those days people would arrange their holidays to watch county cricket.”...
...Taking guard The first Ashes Test of the five-match series is played between England and Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham (to July 14)....
...At the end of April, the company signed a contract worth as much as $598m to supply engines for the US Marine Corps and Air Force’s V-22 tilt rotor aircraft....
...Thor is billed as the latest film from “the studio that brought you Iron Man”, but it is also the latest film from the director who brought you Henry V and Hamlet....
...Arthur Bryan was born in Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, in 1923, in a modest terraced house....
...(Only with the Council of Trent in the 16th century would marriage become a sacrament.) Secret weddings, which could spell disaster for a household’s fortune, were greatly feared by the paterfamilias....
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