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Shakespeare folio found in France

folio, plays, Shakespeare, Tudor England

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A rare and valuable Shakespeare First Folio, regarded as the most important book in English literature, has been discovered in a small French town. The book had lain undisturbed in a library in Saint-Omer, near Calais in northern France, for 200 years....

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What happened to England's stately homes?

aristocracy, BBC, England, estate, mansion, stately home

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Evocative of an aristocratic and glorious history, there are many mansions around England that now stand empty or abandoned. These impressive buildings may look lonely and forlorn but behind every mansion is a story. Winstanley Hall in Winstanley, Wigan...

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Eleanor Marx

engels, marx, TUC

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Eleanor Marx changed the world and in so-doing revolutionised herself. Internationalist, socialist, feminist, trade unionist – I’m compelled to write about a great British historical hero because she’s so relevant. Born in 1855 in a garret to poor political...

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In French: The Rise of UKIP

Conservatives, David Cameron, European Union, Labour, Nigel Farage, UKIP

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Stratégiquement situé en surplomb de l’estuaire de la Medway sur la route de Londres, le superbe château de Rochester a résisté à bien des invasions depuis le Moyen Age. Défendra-t-il David Cameron, jeudi 20 novembre, contre l’humiliation d’une nouvelle...

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In French: Bleuets? Poppies?

armistice, bleuets, In Flanders Fields, poppies, remembrance day, ww1

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Si l'automne n'est pas la saison de la floraison, à l'occasion des célébrations du 11-Novembre, de nombreuses fleurs décorent les monuments aux morts, les vestons et même la Tour de Londres, presque ensevelie sous une avalanche de coquelicots. Si outre-Manche...

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WW1: War Poems

anti-war, First World War, John McCrae, war poetry, Wilfred Owen, WW1

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Reviews: who was the real Thomas Cromwell?

Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII, Hilary Mantel, the Tudors, Thomas Cromwell

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Thomas Cromwell: the Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant Tracy Boorman Hodder & Stoughton, 464pp, £25 The Hollow Crown: the Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors Dan Jones Faber & Faber, 480pp, £20 It cannot have gone unnoticed by...

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What the Battle of Waterloo teaches us about Europe today

1815, Britain, EU, Europe, Germany, Napoleon, The Congress of Vienna, Waterloo

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Brendan Simms’s latest book is “The Longest Afternoon: the 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo” (Allen Lane, £14.99)

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Is the UK in for another Whig revival?

Burke, Walpole, Whig

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The party of Robert Walpole and Charles James Fox has newly registered as a re-born political party under leader Waleed Ghani. Mr Ghani and Jesse Norman, Conservative MP - and biographer of one of the great Whigs, Edmund Burke - discuss the Whigs' rebirth....

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Canada, House of Commons, Mace, Parliament, Sergeant-at-arms, shooting

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Sergeant-at-arms hailed as Canadian hero shows role is not just ceremonial The man being hailed as a hero for reportedly shooting a gunman in Canada’s national parliament is Kevin Vickers, who, as the holder of the post of sergeant-at-ams, is officially...

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