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“No,” he’s told, “by the time Spode formed his association, there were no shirts left. He and his adherents wear black shorts.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
Art made from Spode ceramics broken when a car crashed through the brand's museum is featured in a new exhibition.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2022
Spode, also known as Lord Sidcup, is suspected of colluding with Britain’s soon-to-be enemies.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2018
It’s the one about the theft of an 18th-century cow creamer and the machinations of the would-be dictator Roderick Spode, leader of the Black Shorts.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2016
More or less independent later experiments in France and England led to Sevres, Wedgwood, and Spode porcelains.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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