No matter how controversial the standing of a great statesman, the passing of almost 500 years since his death might be expected to settle opinion one way or the other. Yet the power of a popular historical account, most recently Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker...
Lire la suiteNé le 3 juin 1865, George V règne sur le Royaume-Uni et le Commonwealth du 6 mai 1910 jusqu'à sa mort en 1936 et contribua à rendre la monarchie populaire. Il est le dernier monarque britannique de la maison de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, nom qu'il abandonne...
Lire la suiteGod’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England Jessie Childs Bodley Head, 464pp, £25 The stakes were high, the choice an agonising and unavoidable one for Catholics in England: loyalty to the queen or to the pope. No longer could people be subject...
Lire la suiteAnalysis of DNA from Richard III has thrown up a surprise: evidence of infidelity in his family tree. Scientists who studied genetic material from remains found in a Leicester car park say the finding might have profound historical implications. Depending...
Lire la suiteAn imprisoned and starving mother gnawing on her son’s cheek, a ruler killing his nephew by crushing his skull with a rock, prostitutes sent to sate a monarch in pursuit of a baron’s wife, a papal legate afraid of losing his genitals, and soldiers decapitated...
Lire la suiteIncorporé en 1915 au 11e régiment de fusiliers du Lancashire, le second lieutenant J.R.R.Tolkien participa en juillet 1916 à la sanglante Bataille de la Somme qui fit près de 450.000 morts, dont plus de 200.000 Britanniques. Tolkien échappera à la mort,...
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What did you make of Michael Gove’s remark that Blackadder Goes Forth depicted the First World War as “a misbegotten shambles – a series of catastrophic mistakes perpetrated by an out-of-touch elite”? Self-evidently it was a catastrophe – as we speak...
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