Both were mistaken. But you can hardly go wrong with a Georgian teapot, especially as not everybody has one. Did Charlie check to make sure Maggie didn't have a Georgian teapot? At least not an ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The salt-glazed stoneware teapot and lid pictured here are of the Georgian period and were made in about ...

The old teapots are best: 'A Lady Taking Tea’ by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1735 Credit: Photo: Bridgeman Art Library SIR – What utter nonsense to suggest putting butter up the spout of a ...

In 1980, Charlie Haughey presented the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, with an Irish silver Georgian teapot. The gift, combined with the taoiseach’s considerable charm, melted her icy ...

An elegant black Georgian tea-pot used by one boy’s great-grandparents was one contribution by pupils at a Dublin school to the emigrant’s teapot lesson which is being made available to all ...

CHARLES HAUGHEY, who presented Margaret Thatcher with a Georgian silver teapot at his first meeting with her in Downing Street in May 1980, was “lyrical” about the success of the encounter ...

design their own Georgian teapot, find out about the medicine of the time, make their own wig or ladies fan, and dress up. Pippa Ashmore, museum events officer, said: "This is our first Georgian ...