Anne Kelley
But it did make me yearn, briefly, for the Berlin flat I worked and lived in for more than five years and left 12 months ago. Germans do sustainability very well. They build structures that last, and get it right the first time. Germany’s government has shown how the public sector ...
What the Europeans did not dream was that they were setting in motion the emergence of their first major, modern non-European rival whose rapid rise would stun them, and the world, fifty years later when the “Empire of the Rising Sun” single-handedly defeated one of Europe’s four most...
When the field of psychiatry began in the 1700s, the theory that personality variance had to do with neuroanatomy was put forth—though it was later discredited. By the 1930s, the focus of personality research had shifted to the idea that every individual is unique and that there are a ...
Whoever, he was, and whatever he did, though, there is undoubtedly something disquieting about the image of the desiccated body of the highwayman, the metal locks and hinges of the iron gibbet screaking, and the skirts of his tattered greatcoat waving in the wind!Creams...
As richness reached new peaks in some countries in Europe as a direct result of the new trading routes created by the maritime discoveries, so did pleasure, which became the new thing in high society (aka the royal families and their entourage). Art was a direct reflection of that ext...
Square Haunting, by Francesca Wade (a group biography of five women of Bloomsbury) Swimming to Heaven: The Lost Rivers of London, by Iain Sinclair The Thames, by AP Herbert (1960s book about the river) This is London, by Ben Judah (investigative journalism into areas of London life most ...
Van Eesteren Museum –For Women Only, exhibition exploring conscious and unconscious design choices of home products and how this affected women’s daily lives. Runs 18 Jul to 29 Sep 2024. ARCAM –Form Follows Finance – The City as a Spreadsheet, exhibition about the costs of urban developmen...
Gen Z didn’t inventsimp, but they’ve found a way to make it their own.Simpis used—often, it’s important to note, in sexist ways—as an insult for men who are seen as being too submissive to women, especially under the guise of trying to win sexual attention from them. It’s...
Hopkins had taken of me holding my presents in the little shop. “How strange”I exclaimed.41.The photos in the back of the shop showed A. the items that Mr. Hopkins had sold B.Mr. Hopkins’family members C.Mr. Hopkins’former customers D.the antique paintings42.How did the writer...