In the Guardian, Martin Wainwright mourns and muses on tea's imperialist past: It was only through one of "history's great cultural hijackings" — from the East, "beyond the Milk and Sugar curtain" — that tea came to be known as the British national drink.
We tend to see this, with its women in tutus and its men attired as cavaliers, as a brilliant view of the past; it is shot through with references to "The Sleeping Beauty" (1890) and the baroque court formality that "Beauty" evoked.
Things have been stuck.PR: Well we have an agreement on how we would address the past, it's working its way through in terms of the strong house agreement.
In the past, it has been relayed through handling and poor sanitation, both issues of concern in Hong Kong.
This setback is nothing on the scale of Balkan massacres in the 1990s, but it represents a continued failure to put the region's troubled past behind it through integration with the rest of Europe.
Nomads (n = 30), however, do not sell camel milk but rather, as in the past, redistribute it through kinship and other networks, to neighbouring households that have no milk-producing camels and to labourers that manage herds as well as to their families.
Like Disclosure's Caracal, Jamie xx's solo debut looks longingly at the past, be it through the warm thump of old drum kits or the unearthing of musty samples from the annals of UK rave culture.
Unlike the old Stone Roses, who took from the past but filtered it through the present, this sounded like one of the groups who came in their wake, serviceable but uninspired.
Thompson has too much to say on her own behalf to let Laura narrate the book, and most of the storylines are formally uncomplicated: a grown-up is reflecting on her past, and interpreting it through the lens of everything she has read and seen in the years since.
It is through their art that Egypt and Greece and Rome speak to us from the past, and it is through whatever art we shall leave behind us that future generations shall vision us.
