Princess Charlotte of Cambridge is the only daughter and the second child of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and the great-granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II. Fourth in the line of succession to the throne of Britain, she has two brothers, Prince George...
Thomas Cooper was an English writer whose political epic The Purgatory of Suicides (1845) promulgated in verse the principles of Chartism, Britain’s first specifically working-class national movement, for which Cooper worked and suffered imprisonment. W
Davies rejects a linear narrative in favour of creating layers of emotion through a succession of detached scenes such as Bud’s attempts to get into a cinema and his presence at a drunken family sing-song. But first and foremost this is a film which weighs up the consolations of cinema ...
at short notice, in close succession, often across multiple hospital sites, with the seemingly long time taken to receive results, and the unsettling time spent waiting and ‘not knowing’ the prognosis. Patients
Over the next five years, he studied photography at Manchester’s Regional College of Art and played in a succession of local blues and jazz groups with names like the Blackfriars Society Jazz Band, the House of Sound, and the Powerhouse Four. Through a job as a concert photographer at ...
Surrounded by men like Prince Gorchakov and Prince Metternich, he may well have resented the freedom they had to speak their minds and to chart their own course. At first, he had tried his best to prove his worth amongst them, doing exactly what he believed the King should do; entert...
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Her son and successor, Edward VII, belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the line of his father. Ehrenburg Palace Hall in Ehrenburg Victorian style Interior Decoration Bill of Rights (1689) To exclude any Roman catholic from the succession; To confirm the principle of parliamentary...
At fourteen feet, then, we try to proceed on our course; but the ground is fearfully uneven27, and a succession of bumps brings us to a dead stop. It is 11.40 P.M. After an anxious quarter of an hour, the Commander rises to the surface. The Drogden Lightship is on our starboard ...
Besides making sure, it trains a continual succession of crews for oversea work, and gives experience to young commanders. The number of boats increases every year, and the flow of volunteer entries keeps pace with it. The standard demanded is very high, and it is fully8 maintained. The ...