It is ever the position of the subordinate to be given the tasks which the senior partners do not wish to undertake; so it is that Arthur Kidd

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A prolific filmmaker who directed almost sixty features in his career, sometimes as many as three or four a year from the late fifties to the early seventies,

Soviet Kazakhstan, late 1984, the Orbit 4 capsule has de-orbited and fallen back to Earth after a long mission in space, aboard it Cosmonauts Konstantin Veshnyakov and Kirill

With his sister Alice and brother Celstin, Thomas Van Hasebroeck was the optimistic and carefree child of a loving middle-class French family, their father a commercial pilot who

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Compiled by Chris Gosden, Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford and former curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, many of whose objects are referred to