Boudica (also written as Boadicea) was a Celtic queen who led a revolt against Roman rule in ancient Britain in A.D. 60 or 61. As all of the existing information about her comes from Roman scholars, particularly Tacitus and Cassius Dio, little is known...
1. She had lots of stepmothers. Born at Greenwich Palace on February 18, 1516 (seven years after the 1509 marriage of her parents, King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon,) Mary was their only child to survive past infancy. In the 1520s, Henry, unhappy...
The latest battleground for the future of fracking in Britain looks set to be Sherwood Forest, the legendary home of folk hero Robin Hood and now the target of a seismic survey by Ineos. The chemical multinational, which relocated its headquarters back...
The Brexit vote is over — and Britain has decided to leave the EU, shocking the world and throwing global politics and financial marketsinto turmoil. How could this have happened? Why did Britain, an EU member for decades, all of a sudden decide to quit?...
King George V didn’t have high hopes for his eldest son. “After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself within 12 months,” the British monarch ominously predicted of his womanizing heir apparent. As it turned out, King Edward VIII only required 11 months...
A huge, prehistoric religious and ceremonial complex has been discovered near Britain’s most famous prehistoric temple Stonehenge. Its discovery is likely to transform our understanding of the early development of Stonehenge’s ancient landscape. Built...
Tech Developments of World War I During World War I the governments of all the warring powers put enormous effort into scientific and technical development for military ends. As the seemingly interminable Battle of the Somme entered its twelfth week,...
A print shows African captives being taken on board a slave ship. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty T he past has a disconcerting habit of bursting, uninvited and unwelcome, into the present. This year history gate-crashed modern America in the form of...
On April 4, 1581, a few months after he completed a daring circumnavigation of the globe, the British navigator Francis Drake was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I during a ceremony aboard his flagship Golden Hind. Drake’s round-the-world voyage was a high...
The Vision of the Throne of God and the Twenty-Four Elders from The Getty Apocalypse, about 1255–60. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig III 1, fol. 3v A new season of Game of Thrones has begun, and like last season, we’re planning to recap each week’s...
The Viking Age, from the late-eigth century to the 11th century, produced pioneering explorers such as Erik the Red, who founded Greenland’s first Norse settlement, along with powerful kings such as Cnut the Great, who ruled a vast empire in northern...
Britain has voted to leave the EU, after the Leave campaign won 51.9 per cent of votes in Thursday’s referendum. Less than 24 hours after polls closed, the repercussions have already been enormous both in breadth and depth. British Prime Minister David...
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...
King Richard III died from a particularly brutal blow to the skull, scientists believe after a forensic analysis of his skeleton gave clues to his final moments. A sword or battleaxe spike was thrust four inches into the deposed monarch's head by King...
Northern Ireland has been rocked by six successive nights of violence with 55 police officers injured in a level of unrest “not seen in years”. What is happening? Who is involved? What is the background to the unrest? Has anything else stoked tensions?...
CAPES externe 2021 Histoire: Ecrit, pouvoirs et société en Occident aux XIIe-XIVe siècles (Angleterre, France, Italie, péninsule Ibérique) Le travail en Europe occidentales des années 1830 aux années 1930. Mains-d'oeuvre artisanale et industrielles, pratiques...
Les deux siècles qui suivirent la conquête normande par Guillaume en 1066 furent marqués par d’importants changements qui firent de ce pays l’un des royaumes les mieux administrés d’Europe. Le modèle de féodalité normand organise la société, et les relations...
In 2011, the first intact Viking boat burial site ever found on the UK mainland was discovered in Swordle Bay, Scotland. Unearthed by the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, the burial most likely dated to the late 9th century or early 10th century. It...
Old images of a past England have been collected for the first time in a new book. The charming pictures in Lost England, taken between 1870 and 1930, show the country when it was a world power. While many appear to depict quaint scenes of rural idyll,...
The heavy-set face of Robert the Bruce, the father of Scottish independence, has re-emerged from the shadows nearly 700 years after his death. Facial reconstruction experts at Liverpool John Moores University have released 3D digital images of the Scottish...
In 1777 the 23-year-old Polish-German naturalist George Forster published his landmark work, A Voyage Around the World in his Britannic Majesty’s Sloop the Resolution, Commanded by Captain James Cook. The book was a hit, and stands today as a defining...
Six heures de travail par jour ! Cette utopie lança un genre littéraire et servit, par sa modernité, de boîte à idées à bien d'autres. Mais gardons-nous de tout anachronisme ! Voyons d'abord son contenu, en compagnie de Thierry Martens, imprimeur à Louvain,...
Image copyright BARCROFT IMAGES Image caption The document referred to Brexit talks and the EU single market The government has distanced itself from a page of Brexit notes caught on camera in Westminster. The handwritten notes, carried by an aide to...
A painting of King Richard III by an unknown artist is displayed in the National Portrait Gallery. Photograph: Getty Images The recent discovery of Richard III’s bones has reignited the debate over the fates of his nephews, the Princes in the Tower. An...
En 1817, David Ricardo fait paraître un ouvrage majeur : "Des principes de l’économie politique et de l’impôt". Dans une Angleterre agricole en cours d’industrialisation, comment David Ricardo perçoit-il le progrès de la société anglaise ? En quoi est-il...
