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... Liberal partyforerunner of the present Liberal Democratswas once the most powelful party in the land. Descending from the Whigs, who had themselves held office for much of the 18th century, the Liberals had Protestant, free-trade origins and objected ...
... been discovered. Above all, there is a rare intelligence to be traced in the choice and arrangement of the works .This is no Wh.ig canter from the monkish daubs of the Middle Ages to the photo-realistic splendours of the present day. It is, rather, an intriguing ...
... ist, The: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine. 23cm.272p. £17.99 M.Joseph (1.2005) 0 7181 4711 1 Crowe, lan (Ed.). Imaginative Whig, An: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke. 24cm.280p.111. £30.95 Univ. Missouri P. (1.2005) 0 8262 1557 2 Daybell ...
... until recently, believed to be the only surviving part of the interior decoration of the original house. H ere, Sir Harry's Whig sympathies are shown in a series of busts of the sth Duke of Bedford, C harles James Fox and even Napoleon, placed over mirrors ...
... perpetuated ever since. There are three basic schools of history concerning the origins of the Civil War: Marxist (class struggle); Whig (the inevitable culmination of a long process of political development), and revisionist (could have happened at any time, ...
... sheer splendour, the elevation was without precedent within the realms of country-house design. Conceived for an influential Whig nobleman on the eve of the Glorious Revolution, it reflected the Baroque magnificence of the contemporary royal residence at ...
... talent as a draughtsman from an early age. He was apprenticed to F. D . Finlay, a printer and the proprietor of The Nor/hem Whig, but by the age of 14 he was already giving lessons to other . His early watercolours of landscape round Belfast and on the ...
... place the At Caerhays, Nash was emp- loyed by John Bettesworth Trevanion, heir of an ancient Cornish family and briefly the Whig MP for the rotten borough of Penryn, to replace the old family seat with a spectacular new house over- looking a sandy, sm ...
... Susan Price Simon & Schuster Times 27/8 Nothing Is True Everything is John Geiger Disinformation Daily Telegraph 27/8 The Whig World Leslie Mitchell Hambledon Daily Telegraph 27/8 Spirit Walker Michelle Paver Orion Daily Telegraph 27/8 Drift House Dale ...
... 10/9 Darfur:The Ambiguous Genocide Gérard Prunier Hurst Guardian 10/9 Persian Fire Tom Holland Little,Brown Guardian 10/9 The Whig World Leslie Mitchell Hambledon Guardian 10/9 The First Psychic Peter Lamont Little,Brown Guardian 10/9 The Spice Route:A History ...
... that people bought land in the 18th century to acquire political power. Weddell got into Parliament through the patronage of a Whig magnate, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, as landless MPs such as Burke, Sheridan and Creevey did-his ownership of N ewby had ...
... 19th centuries who made their living through high-class liaisons: the actress Sophia Baddeley; Elizabeth Armistead, lover of Whig politician Charles James Fox; Harriette Wilson, author of scandalous memoirs, whose tale is also told this autumn in Frances ...