The Tumbrel Diaries

Showing posts with label Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Show all posts
Sunday, October 20, 2013

The problem picture

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One of the last bays of our exhibition Edwardian Opulence was dedicated to that now forgotten phenomenon the “problem picture...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

The consul-general

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Old Hanoi Every bit as engaging as His Honour Mr. Craig in Dubai, Daphne Park (the late Baroness Park of Monmouth ) furnished her va...

The Political Agent

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Old Dubai I have been reading Parting Shots , an anthology of extraordinarily entertaining extracts from British diplomats’ valedic...
Monday, May 21, 2012

The bag

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I cannot now recall how I came into possession of an empty British diplomatic bag, but I fancy Charlie Curwen gave it to me more ...
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Angus Trumble
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Angus Trumble will begin work as Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia on February 10, 2014. He has been Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, since May 2003. Angus is the author of a number of books, including A Brief History of the Smile and The Finger: A Handbook, which has lately been published in New York by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, in London by Yale University Press, and by Melbourne University Publishing. He is an occasional contributor to the Burlington Magazine, Apollo, and a more regular one to The Times Literary Supplement, the Australian Book Review, and Esopus Magazine.
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