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• Édouard III et Philippe VI, deux rois pour une couronne

  26 avril 2023 ( #common law, #Edward III, #feudal, #France, #homage, #Hundred Years War, #Isabella, #land, #liege-lord, #Parliament, #Roman law, #Salic law, #Valois, #vassal )

  Édouard III, roi d'Angleterre et petit-fils du roi de France Philippe le Bel, revendique en 1337 la couronne de France et qualifie Philippe VI de Valois d'usurpateur. C'est le début de ce que l'histoire retient comme la guerre de Cent Ans. Comment comprendre...

• Why does King Charles need a coronation?

  20 avril 2023 ( #anointing, #Archbishop, #ceremony, #chair, #Church, #coronation, #crown, #holy oil, #King Charles III, #oath, #regalia, #religion, #ring, #Westminster Abbey )

  King Charles III's coronation on 6 May is likely to showcase the sort of lavish royal pageantry the British are famous for. But it is also a deeply religious occasion steeped in centuries-old traditions that, to some, might seem out of place in 2023....

• Tudor wall paintings uncovered

  14 novembre 2021 ( #Elizabeth I, #painting, #Tudor, #Tudor architecture )

  The Landmark Trust has announced that it has found one of the most sophisticated schemes of Tudor wall paintings found anywhere in Britain. The paintings, dating from the Elizabethan period, were discovered on three walls of a room at Calverley Old Hall...

• Ireland’s population passes 5m for first time since 19th-century famine

  31 août 2021 ( #famine, #Ireland, #population, #potato famine )

  Population returns almost to level recorded after famine that killed 1m and forced millions more to emigrate “Ireland’s population was estimated to be 5.01 million in April 2021, which is the first time the population has risen above 5 million since the...

• Boudicca revolt: Essex dig reveals 'evidence of Roman reprisals'

  21 décembre 2020 ( #Boudicca, #Britannia, #dig, #Roman Britain )

  The destruction of a "clearly high status" Iron Age village "may represent reprisals after the Boudiccan revolt", an archaeologist has said. More than 17 roundhouses were discovered in a defensive enclosure at Cressing, near Braintree in Essex. The site...

• BBC drama series about the Gunpowder Plot

  19 février 2017 ( #BBC, #Gunpowder Plot, #Guy Fawkes, #Robert Catesby )

  Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington has been confirmed to star in a new drama series about the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605, telling the little-known story of the real brains behind the operation: Robert Catesby. Harington had been rumoured to be working...

• 1/5 of Labour MPs defy three line whip to vote against article 50 bill

  02 février 2017 ( #brexit article 50, #Ken Clarke, #Labour, #parliament )

  A fifth of Labour MPs defied Jeremy Corbyn’s three-line whip to vote against legislation granting Theresa May the power to trigger the UK’s exit from the European Union. After a second day of impassioned debate in the House of Commons, a total of 498...

• The Impact of the White Ship Disaster

  26 janvier 2017 ( #Henry 1, #Matilda, #Norman kings, #White Ship )

  There can be no doubt that the sinking of the White ship had a colossal impact on English history and was a decisive point in the legacy of the Norman kings. Most chroniclers agree that the catastrophe of 1120 was devastating, with William of Malmesbury...

• 6 things we owe to the Vikings

  27 octobre 2016 ( #horned helmets, #longboat, #sagas, #Vikings )

  From the late eighth to the late 11th centuries, the Vikings dominated Europe and spread across the world, from the far reaches of Russia to the eastern coast of North America. Though their raids, often directed against religious targets, were undoubtedly...

• Passchendaele: WW1 battle centenary commemorated

  03 janvier 2017 ( #Passchendaele, #the Battle of the Somme, #world war, #WW1 )

  Descendants of British soldiers who fought in the battle will be offered free tickets to the commemorations. About 325,000 Allied troops and 260,000 Germans died in the battle. Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said it was important to remember the "horrors"...

• The Battle of Culloden (1746)

  28 janvier 2017 ( #Bonnie Prince Charlie, #Culloden, #Jacobites, #Outlander )

  The Battle of Culloden was fought on Drumossie Moor, to the north east of Inverness, on April 16, 1746. It was the last of the great Jacobite risings - popular attempts to reinstate a Stuart monarch on the throne of Britain - and was led by Charles Edward...

• The six wives of Henry VIII

  31 décembre 2015 ( #Anne of Cleves, #Catherine of Aragon, #Henry 8, #six wives )

  It’s well known that everyone's favourite religious reformer and psychopath, Henry VIII, called six different women his wife. He may have claimed that four of them never counted, he may have had two of those killed. Nonetheless, he got married on six...

• The location of King Arthur’s legendary Camelot discovered?

  23 décembre 2016 ( #Camelot, #Cornwall, #King Arthur, #Tintagel )

  A retired professor claims he has finally discovered the location of King Arthur’s legendary Camelot – on the outskirts of Huddersfield. The location of the castle has been the subject of thousands of years of rumour and speculation. Even the existence...

• Geography

  27 mai 2016 ( #British Isles, #Game of Thrones, #Geography, #GoT )

  0 Game of Thrones author George RR Martin has always made it clear that his epic series of novels is set in a land loosely based on Medieval Britain – but until now we hadn't realised quite how influential the British Isles have been on both the books...

• Brexit Demographics

  26 juin 2016 ( #brevet divide, #Brexit, #charts, #demographics )

  supported in parts of England with low income and education levels. Average educational attainment, median income and social class in English local authorities were the strongest predictors of how residents in that area voted in the referendum. The results...

• The Romans, the Wall and the Wildlings

  10 août 2016 ( #Barbarians, #GoT, #Hadrian's Wall, #Roman Britain )

  Game of Thrones has become one of the most popular books in the genre of fantasy, and the most watched show in HBO history. 1 George RR Martin has gained a celebrity status that very few authors experience. According to Joseph Abercrombie, a major figure...

• In French: the Enigma machine

  29 janvier 2015 ( #Alan Turing, #Bletchley Park, #Enigma, #WW2 )

  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...

• In French: www.gov.scot

  18 février 2015 ( #independence, #referendum, #Scotland, #UK )

  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...

• Shakespeare folio found in France

  29 novembre 2014 ( #folio, #plays, #Shakespeare, #Tudor England )

  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....

• Shackleton's lost ship is found

  09 mars 2022 ( #Antarctic, #Shackleton, #shipwreck )

  GETTY IMAGES/SPRI Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/National Geographic/PA The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found at the weekend at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank...

• L'Economie selon Virginia Woolf

  20 avril 2023 ( #Bloomsbury, #education, #Empire, #Fabian Society, #Hogarth Press, #Keynes, #marriage, #property, #Suffragettes, #Victorian, #Virginia Woolf, #Webb, #women )

  Dans quelle mesure Virginia Woolf comprend-elle la domination patriarcale comme fondée sur une domination économique et matérielle ? Avec Naomi Toth Maître de conférences en littérature anglophone Alain Jumeau Alain Jumeau, professeur émérite à la Sorbonne,...

• NI assembly to be recalled over loyalist violence

  07 avril 2021 ( #BBC, #Belfast, #Boris Johnson, #Brexit, #DUP, #Good Friday Agreement, #Londonderry, #loyalists, #Northern Ireland, #Sinn Fein, #Ulster, #Unionist, #violence )

  The Northern Ireland Assembly is to be recalled early from its Easter break on Thursday to discuss the violence in some loyalist areas. (...) Forty-one police officers have been injured as a result of the violence in parts of greater Belfast and Londonderry,...

• Boris Johnson, l'illusionniste du Brexit (in French)

  12 janvier 2021 ( #Boris Johnson, #Brexit, #city, #Commonwealth, #elite, #EU, #eurosceptic, #financial services, #Global Britain, #Irish border, #Little England, #Scotland, #Tories )

  Dix jours après l’entrée en vigueur du Brexit, qui s’est traduit par le retrait du Royaume-Uni de l’Union européenne, “Le Monde en face” dresse le portrait de celui qui joua un rôle décisif dans ce divorce historique. Mais au-delà de son rôle dans la...

• Une tapisserie "Game of Thrones" bientôt exposée à Bayeux

  07 juillet 2019 ( #Bayeux Tapestry, #Game of Thrones, #Norman Britain )

  Dans un musée de Belfast, des couturières munies de fils scintillants rouge et or apportent les dernières touches à une immense tapisserie, conçue pour rendre hommage à la série phénomène Game of Thrones. Longue de 90 mètres, cette tapisserie veut être...

• Project to bring Sutton Hoo burial boat back to life

  10 mars 2019 ( #Anglo-Saxon, #burial ship, #Sutton Hoo )

  We went to Windsor Great Park to do a first assessment of what’s available as we need a selection of different kinds of timber from quite a number of trees. ‘There are large sections needed for the keel, which is probably one of the first things that...