Harrowing tales of British slavery revealed for first time.
They are revealed in a new digital database of runaways that escaped from cruel merchants who grew rich on their labour.
London’s best new restaurant openings – June 2018
With plenty of exciting restaurant launches constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurants opening over the coming month. Brigadiers - City The latest restaurant from JKS Restaurants (BAO, XU, Sabor), Brigadiers will open within the Bloomberg Arcade next week. An Indian barbecue restaurant and drinking tavern, Brigadiers will house two designated bars: Blighters and The Tap Room, with a whisky vending machine, on-tap cocktails, Champagne and punch fountains, and fast-pour pints from self-serve beer taps....
Nonesuch Orchestra to perform Stravinsky’s ballet Apollo at St Peter’s Church, Acton Green
The Nonesuch Orchestra is set to perform Stravinsky’s ballet Apollo (“Apollon musagète”) with new choreography from local dance company Ballet4life on Saturday 23rd June at 7.30pm at St Peter’s Church, Acton Green. Conductor Dan Shilladay has curated an evening of musical delights, starting with Mozart’s B-flat Divertimento, followed by Bach’s Double Violin Concerto (soloists Stephanie Waite, the leader of the Nonesuch Orchestra, and her husband Enrico Alvares) and concluding with Apollo. Traditionally Stravinsky’s Apollo is performed with the 1928 choreography...
Could Zinedine Zidane be heading to Chelsea?
By Geo Craig Zidane has emerged as a shock leading candidate to replace Antonio Conte if he departs Stamford Bridge this summer. Speculation about the Italian’s future has grown throughout the season and it is now expected that he will not be leading Chelsea for next year’s campaign. Maurizio Sarri was widely touted as Abramovic’s favourite to takeover and talks had been progressing well, however there has since been a breakdown in negations with Napoli refusing to lower their £7m...
Paris’ new totally immersive art experience: Atelier des Lumières
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to step into your favourite paintings, Paris' new totally immersive art experience at Atelier des Lumières may be just the ticket. The City's first digital art centre has blown up monumental depictions of your favourite art works, digitally cast onto floors walls and ceilings. Paris' new 'Studio of Lights' is set in a renovated 19th century foundry in the 11th arrondissement, with 26-foot-high walls and an immense 21,000 square feet of open floor...
Review: Translations, National Theatre
Like the characters who wear several layers of clothes even though it’s a hot summer in 1833 in Baile Beag, an Irish speaking community in Donegal about to have a new civilisation and language imposed on them by the English, director Ian Rickson’s production of Brian Friel’s Translations (1980) is shot through with multiple meanings, some of which seem untranslatable into words- apt as Friel’s part inspiration for the play was George Steiner’s After Babel, a reflection on the science...
Where Oxbridge has failed, people power is providing a route to higher education for the less well-off
David Lammy's critique of the UK's top universities has become a national talking point this week as calls for Oxford and Cambridge to "put their vast wealth to better use by funding sophisticated access and outreach programmes" surface. The debate raised by the Labour MP is almost identical to that made by RH Tawney in 1906, when he argued that the ancient universities were wasting their wealth on scholarships for the wealthy. They should, he said, spread their "roots into the...
Philippe Baudillon: “Advances in digital technology offer an opportunity to rethink the street and city.”
The city of tomorrow is at the heart of debates today. Initiatives by big corporations are thriving. At CES 2018, Google presented Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary experimenting in Toronto with its projects for the city of tomorrow. Projects to develop autonomous mobility are proliferating. Like GAFA, industrial players aspiring to meet city-dwellers’ complex expectations are reinvesting in the city and street. In his first book, Philippe Baudillon, chairman of Clear Channel France, Belgium, Netherlands, proposes an exploratory approach to understanding...
Your pound goes further in these 6 business-friendly retirement destinations for entrepreneurs
The end is in sight — the end of your present career track, at least. Like any good strategist, you’ve done your due diligence: You’ve met with a financial adviser to create a financial plan, devised an exit strategy from your current job, and (perhaps) begun staging your next entrepreneurial act. You’d just prefer that act not to take place in the U.K. And that can be arranged. Whether you’re approaching traditional retirement age or looking to “quit” earlier in...