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Lire la suiteLe roi Charles Ier, dès son accession au trône en 1625, pensait que l’avenir en Angleterre était à la monarchie absolue. Mais ses vues, empruntées à la France ou à l’Espagne, ne purent s’imposer. Le passé anglais lui résista : la vieille Common Law qu’on...
Lire la suiteThe most interesting thing about King Charles, the first Is that he was 5 foot 6 inches tall at the start of his reign But only 4 foot 8 inches tall at the end of it because of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England Puritan Born in 1599 and died in...
Lire la suiteT he elite are in trouble, their sources of wealth exhausted, their civilisation assailed by crazed fanatics from without – while, within, the masses are in open revolt. No, it’s not the eurozone – it is Westeros, the mythical venue for Game of Thrones....
Lire la suiteWhy on earth would someone like me, who makes her career out of historical facts, harbour a guilty fixation on a swords-and-sorcery fantasy like Game of Thrones? Because the central matter is the genuine stuff of history, strange but familiar, with the...
Lire la suiteDix millions de téléspectateurs britanniques ont assisté, jeudi 2 avril au soir, au premier vrai débat de la campagne électorale pour les législatives du 7 mai. L’affiche était inédite dans un pays habitué au bipartisme depuis des siècles : à côté des...
Lire la suiteOn Thursday, a king of England will be buried for the second time in his green and pleasant land. This time, however, as a nation, we’ll be doing it right. More than 500 years after his death in August 1485, King Richard III, the last Plantagenet king,...
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