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10 juin 2024
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#anti-EU, #anti-parliamentarism, #anti-Semitism, #counter-revolutionary, #Far-right, #France, #French Republic, #nationalism, #reactionary, #xenophobia )
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16 avril 2023
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#Charles V, #France, #Francis I, #Henry VIII, #Napoleon III, #Queen Victoria, #Tudor, #William the Conqueror )
Episode 1 : Guillaume Le Conquérant a plus d'un tour dans sa Manche Episode 2: Henri VIII et François Ier, un Tudor au camp du Drap d'or Episode 3: Victoria and Paris, une reine francophile Listen here : x
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10 avril 2023
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#bombing, #border, #Brexit, #Good Friday Agreement, #IRA, #Loyalists, #peace deal, #power-sharing, #Republicans, #The Troubles )
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10 juin 2024
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#anti-EU, #anti-parliamentarism, #anti-Semitism, #counter-revolutionary, #Far-right, #France, #French Republic, #nationalism, #reactionary, #xenophobia )
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11 janvier 2022
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#English, #French, #language, #Latin, #Middle English, #Norman Conquest, #Normans, #Old English )
When the Normans came and conquered in 1066, they brought the French language with them. So why did it not persist, and how did English gain traction? Professor Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia explains
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22 février 2022
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#Boris Johnson, #Brexit, #British identity, #Disunited Kingdom, #EU, #Prime Minister, #special relationship, #United Kingdom )
Beaucoup le prenaient pour un bouffon. Il a pourtant fait gagner le Brexit en 2016 puis a triomphé aux législatives de décembre 2019. Boris Johnson est en train de changer en profondeur le Royaume-Uni, d'y laisser une trace indélébile, pour le meilleur...
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08 novembre 2021
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#Black Death, #Hundred Years' War, #Peasants' Revolt, #piers plowman, #Plague, #Poll tax, #Richard II, #serfdom )
The Great Uprising of 1381 is the most significant popular uprising to take place in medieval England. Also called the Peasants’ Revolt, the event took place in the months of May and June 1381... Continue reading : x
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20 octobre 2021
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#feudal society, #feudalism, #lord, #manor, #Marc Bloch, #monastery, #serfdom, #vassal )
Continue reading : x
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01 décembre 2020
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#border, #Brexit, #EU, #Good Friday Agreement, #hard border, #Joe Biden, #President-Elect, #US Elections )
source : The Guardian
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27 décembre 2020
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#Brexit, #Erasmus, #EU, #Johnson, #Northern Ireland, #Republic of Ireland, #trade deal, #UK )
Third level students from Northern Ireland colleges will continue to be able to study in Europe under the Erasmus+ scheme after the UK leaves the EU because the Irish Government will fund them. Continue reading : x
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03 août 2020
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#appointments, #Brexit, #cronies, #House of Lords, #House of Lords reform, #peerage, #Prime Minister, #unelected chamber )
August 1st, 2020. Sky News
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03 août 2020
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#advice, #Anglo-Saxons, #ceremony, #earl, #kingship, #moot, #Parliament, #shire, #The Witan, #thegn )
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20 août 2020
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#Anglo-Saxon, #Augustine, #Bede, #Canterbury, #monasteries, #Northumbria, #Sutton Hoo, #Wearmouth-Jarrow )
source : British Library
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20 août 2020
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#Bayeux Tapestry, #Duchy of Normandy, #Hastings, #longboat, #Norsemen, #Rollo, #the Norman Conquest, #William the Conqueror )
Listen again: x (in French)
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03 août 2020
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#automation, #industrial revolution, #loom, #luddites, #machine, #ned ludd, #textile industry, #textile mill )
source: CBS Sunday Morning
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24 mars 2020
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#1906, #Fabian Society, #Keir Hardie, #Labour MP, #Labour Party, #Parliament, #Ramsay MacDonald, #strike, #Trade Unions, #working class )
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18 novembre 2018
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#back stop, #Brexit, #deal, #EU, #hard brexit, #no deal, #Northern Island, #referendum, #soft brexit, #Theresa May )
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02 avril 2019
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#back stop, #brexit, #deal, #EU, #hard brexit, #no deal, #Northern Island, #referendum, #soft brexit, #Theresa May )
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18 septembre 2019
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#Acts of Union, #Brexit, #court of session, #English law, #high court, #Scotland, #Supreme Court, #UK )
Read at source: historyextra
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21 décembre 2019
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#Elizabeth I, #Golden Age, #Henry VII, #Henry VIII, #Mary Tudor, #podcast, #Reformation, #the Church of England, #the English nation, #Tudor )
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05 décembre 2019
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#abuse of office, #abuse of power, #common law, #election, #high crime and misdemeanour, #House of Commons, #impeachment, #UK Parliament )
source: PBS NewsHour
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30 octobre 2014
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#1815, #Britain, #EU, #Europe, #Germany, #Napoleon, #The Congress of Vienna, #Waterloo )
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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10 avril 2023
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#anniversary, #Belfast, #border, #Brexit, #DUP, #Good Friday Agreement, #murals, #Northern Ireland, #peace, #sectarian violence )
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16 mars 2020
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#Boris Johnson, #Brexit, #C dans l'air, #England Scotland, #EU, #Northern Ireland, #Tory, #UK, #Wales )
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16 septembre 2024
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#British Empire, #Crystal Palace, #Great Exhibition, #Industrial Revolution, #London, #Victorian Britain, #Victorian engineering )
Continue reading : x
