The effect of this was considerable and I want to turn, just for a few minutes to an entirely new category of architecture, buildings for the motor car. For those wanting to buy one of these new-fangled devices the first car show rooms were set up in carriage repositories and occasionally in normal town centre shops but in the years immediately before the first world war interest was growing in the design of purpose-built motor showrooms, indeed in the streets around Great Portland Street in London by 1914 there were already 29 show rooms including numbers 19-21 the shop of W.F. Thorne designed by Frank M Elgood in 1907-8. After the war London dealers trading in luxury marques congregated in club land in St James’s. The most splendid was the HQ of Wolseley designed by Curtis Green in 1922 with giant Corinthian columns framing plain cast iron panelling and wrought iron grilles. Inside the space was vaulted and supported by red lacquered Doric columns. Cars were not being advertised and sold on technical specification, but on their elegance and sophistication as leisure machines. Traditional structures did start giving way to showrooms in a modern style in the 1930s. In the exclusive shopping area of Bold Street in Liverpoolthere were a number of dealers housed in modern showrooms with very big windows. Designers often tried to minimise the reflections on the shopwindows by building out canopies to shield them from the light. One of the lynxes on Gow’s farm in Devon. He says the three he has are too tame to let out into the wild. Photograph: Alexander Turner/The Guardian The fascinating thing about all this is that the modern was not seen as a serious style. Houses in Grosvenor Square were Georgian and serious architecture. These were where the money was – but on the coast a new fantasy style was to join the others, a new sense of escapism. This wasn’t real England, this was fun. Real England was rooted in the past. Roman soldiers are put into groups of around 6,000 men known as legions. The Roman army is well armed, very skilled at working together and heavily protected by armour.

The First World War killed eight million people, and shattered the Victorian age. England had not been in a major war since the defeat of Napoleon, and those who imagined riding to victory in shining breastplates were appalled to end up in a network of muddy trenches that, if stretched out in a long line, would have wound itself once round the globe. 7,000 young men were killed every day in the trenches, while 70 miles away in England people still went to the theatre and smoked cigars. The young archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler, later to be one of my predecessors as director of this museum, recalled in his autobiography ‘Those familiar only with the mild casualties of the Second German War can have little appreciation of the carnage which marked its predecessor. It is a typical instance that, of five university students who worked together in the Wroxeter excavations of 1913, one only survived the war. It so happened that the survivor was myself.’ In school, Caribbean children were taught that they were British citizens and that Britain was their motherland or mother country. This meant that people believed that they would be welcomed, that Britain would look after them and that their lives would be significantly better. Hovering somewhere between a novel and a travelogue, this semi-autobiographical account of Verne's first trip to Britain (accompanied by his friend, the composer Aristide Hignard) is an early, formative work which did not see publication until 1989. (This English translation appeared in 1992.) At the time of its writing, it was rejected by Verne's publisher in favor of "Five Weeks in a Balloon," and while the latter novel is of dubious quality and value, it was a shrewd choice on the part of the publisher, since it did much to establish Verne's long-germinating career as a full-time writer. Baldwin was prime minister 1924-9 and 1935-37 and was effectively deputy Prime Minister 1931-7. Like Margret Thatcher, another Conservative Prime Minister, Baldwin successfully conveyed his personal vision with considerable influence. He saw the post war world as a fragile place, inherently instable in need of careful handling. He strove and succeeded to be a figure that almost rose above politics evoking images that he believed would unify the nation. They were traditional Christian ones of charity and patience, respect and generosity of spirit, but they were underpinned by a sustaining idea of the rural heritage. The image of Baldwin as a countryman was a central part of his appeal, especially in the early years of his first premiership.This survey paints a fairly depressing picture of how gender inequality has been exacerbated during the pandemic, with women really struggling to cope,” said Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts. By this date Repair and maintenance garages were also a common sight, in rural areas, many in converted or rudely built roadside structures, but city centre ones were more substantial like the big Hamilton Motors (now Exotic cars) on Edgware Road, London designed in 1928 by O’Donoghue and Halfhide. This combines show room, filling station and repair bays. During the thirties there began to be much greater standardisation in car manufacture and there were fewer types on the road. Those that were tended to be less clumsy and more streamlined. For both these reasons modern-style garages began to be more favoured. The sleek styling of cars was seen to be set off better against a high tech building rather than a neo Georgian one. Mechanics were also keen to have large open-plan floors where cars could be serviced on a production line basis with increasing numbers of machines. The Tower (now maranello Ferrari) garage on Egham Bypass Surrey was built in 1935 by Rix and Rix of Birmingham a firm that specialised in such buildings. Long and low (extended in length later) it has a tower for visibility and vertical accent a common feature for transport and commercial structures. Eppure non si trova solamente questo, in questa cronaca di viaggio, che via via che procede assomiglia sempre di più ad un quaderno di appunti su luoghi visitati. luna iulie a anului 185…, cel mai bun prieten al lui Jacques, Jonathan Savoumon, distins compozitor, îi zise exact în acest scop:

In the Caribbean, thousands of men and women had served in the British Armed Forces. After the war, some of them answered an advert to come to Britain, where there were lots of different jobs available. Other people just wanted to see England, which they had heard so much about. After burning down Colchester, Boudicca's army destroyed the Roman town of London, before heading north to St Albans. Walter Scott è il poeta e la "guida" che Jacques e Jonathan cercano in ogni angolo, visitandone il monumento a Edimburgo, e andando sulle tracce di Rob Roy. However, the online service uses the simplified rate for goods in the remaining categories, which have a duty rate lower than 2.5%.There were some glimmers of hope, with 63% of respondents saying their family unit was closer as a result of the pandemic. While 69% said their partner had spent more time with the children, 43% said their partner had developed a greater understanding of the demands of childcare, and 24% of the partners of those polled were more likely to take on domestic tasks. One of the ideas here is to give fixed-penalty notices to first-time offenders, and refer them to drug-awareness courses. There isn’t much difference between this proposal and Sadiq Khan’s plan to pilot “diversion schemes” for cannabis possession in Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. Similar schemes are already being run by a number of police forces, including Durham and Avon & Somerset. They allow police officers to divert people from the criminal justice system and towards rehabilitation or counselling programmes. Yet when Khan announced his plans in London, Priti Patel condemned the London mayor and said he “ has no powers to legalise drugs” (diversion schemes do nothing of the sort). Many of the Windrush generation had arrived in Britain as young children on their parents’ passports, without papers of their own. The only proof of their status as legal migrants in Britain were landing cards, which had been collected from them upon their arrival in Britain. A major effect of this was the garden City. This was a concept invented by a single man Ebenezer Howard, but one that found instant approval because of the ideas that I have just been talking about. Howard wanted to design a new type of place to live based on the model industrial villages such as saltairebuilt by the industrialist Sir Titus salt for the workers in his mills in Yorkshire and particularly Port Sunlight on the Wirral West bank of the Mersey built by the Lever family. These settlements got away from the brutal workers terraces that had characterised some new industrial towns such as Middlesbrough housing workers in traditional buildings in a rural setting. What was different about the garden cities is that they were to be funded by their inhabitants not by employers. The first to be built was Letchworth garden city followed by Hampstead garden Suburb. These housing developments, about which much could be said, were important because they presented a view of England and English architecture that was essentially rural, vernacular and native. The types of the houses were Tudor, or Queen Anne, a few were neo Georgian, they were laid out amidst trees and parks; the was counter urban, this was quasi rural. The Labour opposition, terrified of being accused of being bitter remainers who disrespected democracy, bought into that narrative too, either by avoiding the subject of Brexit altogether, or by timidly suggesting that they, unlike the Conservatives, would make Brexit work, without going into the detail of how precisely that might be achieved. The result is a Brexit-shaped elephant in the debating room of UK politics.

Verne's experience of Scotland, and his writings about it, come from a reader's point of view: they reflect that he had discovered the country in books before setting foot there himself. In particular, his view of Scotland is heavily influenced by the works of the novelist Sir Walter Scott and the poet James Macpherson. (Indeed, Verne's novels often describe Scotland simply as the land of Scott, or as that of his hero Rob Roy.) [6] Dar, după uimire, urmă reflecţia. Jacques recunoscu partea glumeaţă a sfatului lui Charles Nodier; înţelese, de fapt, că era mai uşor să ajungi în Scoţia decât în Franche-Comté; îţi trebuie, evident, un pretext serios, un motiv important ca să ajungi până la Vesoul, în timp ce voia bună, nevoia de a trăi şi altfel, o idee fericită avută dimineaţa, la trezire, fantezia încântătoare ajungeau ca să te ducă până dincolo de Clyde şi de Tweed. Charles Nodier, în Fanteziile zeflemistului cu bun simţ, le-a dat acest sfat generaţiilor viitoare: „Dacă există cineva în Franţa care n-a făcut sau n-a putut face o călătorie în Scoţia, l-aş sfătui să viziteze Haute-Franche-Comté, unde va găsi cu ce să se consoleze. Cerul este poate mai puţin vaporos, iar siluetele mobile şi arbitrare ale norilor mai puţin pitoreşti şi bizare ca în regatul ceţos al lui Fingal; însă, în afară de aceste lucruri, asemănarea dintre cele două ţinuturi este perfectă.” Jacques Lavaret meditase multă vreme la aceste cuvinte ale plăcutului povestitor. La început, l-au uimit. Cea mai mare dorinţă a sa a devenit să viziteze patria lui Walter Scott, să asculte limba galică şi accentele sale dure, să tragă în piept ceţurile sănătoase ale bătrânei Caledonii, să aspire, într-un cuvânt, prin toate simţurile sale, elementul poetic al acestei ţări fermecătoare.Şi iată că un om inteligent, un scriitor scrupulos, tocmai îi spunea limpede: nu te deranja! Lons-le-Saunier îţi va traduce minunile din Edinburg, iar munţii Jura sunt la fel ca piscurile acoperite de ceţuri ale lui Ben Lomond! For the novel, Verne changed the names of the characters: he became Jacques Lavaret, while his friend Aristide became Jonathan Savournon. This allowed him to take some liberties with the story, exaggerating a few passages, but mostly it was a faithful depiction of their trip.If you’re bringing personal goods into the UK for your own use, or to be given as a gift and you’re transporting the goods yourself, you can use the online service to: Along with Nato, the EU is the most important international organisation in the struggle to counter the threat from Putin’s Russia. That Ukraine and the countries of the western Balkans desperately want to join, proves that you can dislike the EU, but you can not deny its relevance. But while lynxes are a keystone species, they will not radically change landscapes as beavers do, and would not be suited to living in all parts of the country. They are solitary ambush hunters. Each animal generally has a territory of at least 100 sq km and cats of the same sex do not like to share territories. Landscapes cannot support a high density of them. Why wouldn’t we want lynxes?