Keep calm and study British history

Who was Alan Turing?

Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, Enigma, The Imitation Game, WW2

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Things you might not know about Richard III

Bosworth, Leicester, Plantagenet, Richard III, Shakespeare, The War of the Roses

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Richard III is getting buried on Thursday – more than 500 years after his death and less than three years after his bones were found under a car park in Leicester. His interment at the city’s Cathedral will be presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury...

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In French: www.gov.scot

independence, referendum, Scotland, UK

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Le gouvernement écossais, à défaut d’obtenir la scission d’avec le Royaume-Uni au référendum de septembre dernier, a au moins pris son indépendance sur internet en changeant mercredi le nom de son domaine gov.uk qui devient gov.scot. Cinq mois après l’échec...

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Who was Jane Seymour?

Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, Tudor England, Wolf Hall

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Who were her parents? Jane Seymour was born at Wulfhall in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire. The fact that 29 ladies rode in her funeral procession in 1537 – traditionally one for every year of life – suggests that she was born between October 1507 and October...

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£10m Magna Carta found in council archives

barons, King John, Magna Carta

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Detail from the Salisbury Magna Carta. Photograph: POOL/REUTERS An edition of the Magna Carta which could be worth up to £10m has been found after it lay forgotten in a council’s archives. The discovery of the version of the historical parchment which...

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Epic Magna Carta Rap Battle

barons, King John, Magna Carta

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Bletchley Park codebreakers

Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, Second World War, the Enigma code, The Imitation Game, WW2

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There are secrets and there are secrets. The work done during the Second World War at Bletchley Park , a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire, was so secret, the people who worked there didn't talk about it even to their parents, let alone their husbands...

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In French: the Enigma machine

Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, Enigma, WW2

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Si Alan Turing a finalement eu droit à une reconnaissance posthume, et est aujourd'hui le personnage principal du film Imitation Game, sorti mercredi 28 janvier, ce n'est pas le cas de celui qui a été durant des années son « adversaire » indirect. Mort...

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Propaganda wars: how British cartoonists skewered Napoleon

cartoons, napoleon, propaganda, propaganda wars

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The Plumb-pudding in Danger, 1805 Picture: The Trustees of the British Museum

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Churchill's Funeral

1965, Prime Minister, state funeral, Winston Churchill, WW2

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