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• The Coronation Ceremony: the Oath

  06 mai 2023 ( #Archbishop of Canterbury, #Charles III, #Church of England, #coronation, #Gospel, #justice, #law, #oath, #Protestant succession, #Reformed Church, #settlement )

  The Oath Archbishop of Canterbury: Your Majesty, the Church established by law,whose settlement you will swear to maintain,is committed to the true profession of the Gospel,and, in so doing, will seek to foster an environmentin which people of all faiths...

• Stonehenge: a tourist trap?

  14 septembre 2017 ( #Stonehenge )

  2500 BC: Stonehenge is the talk of prehistoric Europe Visitors have always been part of Stonehenge, even the stones are foreigners: the small ones from Wales, the large ones probably from the Marlborough Downs, 20 miles to the north. Stonehenge was truly...

• Cromwell by Monty Python

  06 mai 2015 ( #Cavaliers, #Charles 1st, #Civil War, #Commonwealth, #Cromwell, #John Pimms, #Lord Protector, #Monty Python, #Naseby, #New Model Army, #Roundheads )

  The most interesting thing about King Charles, the first Is that he was 5 foot 6 inches tall at the start of his reign But only 4 foot 8 inches tall at the end of it because of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England Puritan Born in 1599 and died in...

• 1939: Countdown to War

  03 décembre 2015 ( #WW2 )

  In August 1914, Britain went to war with Germany amid patriotic fervour. A cabinet minister's private secretary recalled thousands "milling around" in Downing Street, "shouting and singing and bursting with cheers". In September 1939, the mood was different....

• Syria and Labour leadership

  03 décembre 2015 ( #Chamberlain, #Commons, #Corbyn, #EU, #Howe, #Labour, #Labour leadership, #Leo Amery, #Syria, #Thatcher, #WW2 )

  Beware the instant theatrical excitement of the great parliamentary moment. Always read the health warnings before swallowing the claims about the House of Commons at its best. Real politics isn’t a Spielberg movie about slavery, or a West Wing episode,...

• How the Vikings saved Europe and a got terrible reputation

  27 septembre 2014 ( #Vikings )

  They say history is written by the victors, but what if the victims are the ones with the pens? That is the bizarre circumstance surrounding the history of the Vikings, since the centuries-old myth that has come down to us about their brutal savagery...

• Le Cours de l'histoire

  17 avril 2023 ( #Anglo-Saxons, #Bayeux Tapestry, #Exchequer, #Normandy, #tax, #the English Channel, #the Norman Conquest, #White Tower, #William I, #William the Bastard )

  Le 5 janvier 1066, Édouard le Confesseur, roi d’Angleterre, meurt sans descendance. Une crise de succession s’engage alors. Guillaume, puissant duc de Normandie, ne tarde pas à faire valoir ses droits sur le trône d’Angleterre… Avec Véronique Gazeau Professeure...

• Le Cours de l'histoire (France Culture)

  16 avril 2023 ( #Anne Boleyn, #Charles V, #Field of the Cloth of Gold, #foreign policy, #France, #Francis I, #French court, #Henry VIII, #Renaissance, #Tudor )

  En 1520, Henri VIII et François Ier se rencontrent pour la première fois. Quelles sont les relations entre ces deux rois qui ont de nombreux points communs ? Entre rivalité, concurrence, admiration et agressivité, ils se croisent et s'affrontent tout...

• L'Economie selon les soeurs Brontë

  19 janvier 2024 ( #Brontë sisters, #Chartism, #economy, #Franchise, #Industrial Revolution, #literature, #Luddites, #Tory, #Victorian Britain, #Victorian women )

  De "Jane Eyre" à "Hurlevent", les enjeux d'argent et de classe sociale transparaissent dans les œuvres des sœurs Brontë, tandis que leur condition de femmes écrivaines défie les normes de l'Angleterre victorienne. Avec: Claire Bazin Professeure de littérature...

• The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film

  22 octobre 2022 ( #Brexit, #EU, #Farage, #Financial Times, #Johnson, #Labour, #Tory, #UK, #UK economy, #UKIP )

  The UK's recent disastrous "mini" Budget can trace its origins back to Britain's decision to leave the European Union. The economic costs of Brexit were masked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the crisis in Ukraine. But six years after the UK voted to leave,...

• Podcast (in French) : Histoire du travail à domicile (France Culture)

  24 juillet 2021 ( #agriculture, #domestic system, #French Revolution, #housewife, #monasteries, #peasants, #private sphere, #proto-industry, #textile, #trades )

  Épisode 1 : Proto-industrie, les paysans hors-champs Le monde paysan est caractérisé par la pluriactivité. Ainsi, suivant les régions et les saisons, les paysans se font lunetiers, tisserands ou couteliers. Regard sur ces activités proto-industrielles...

• Anglo-Saxon burial site

  12 septembre 2021 ( #Anglo-Saxons, #archeology, #Bede, #Bronze Age, #burial, #cemetery, #grave, #Jutes, #Kent, #Old English )

  An ancient burial site dating back to 2000 BCE was found in Kent last week. The burial site (...) contained bodies including a 12-year-old and a woman buried in smaller ring ditches. After the fall of the Roman Empire 2,500 years later, the Jutes arrived...

• Le Brexit post-Covid - France Culture

  22 juin 2020 ( #Boris Johnson, #Brexit, #Covid, #EU, #Global Britain, #Michel Barnier, #negociations, #No Deal, #special relationship, #UK )

  INTERVENANTS Iain Begg Enseignant-chercheur attaché à l'Institut européen de la London School of Economics. Thibaud Harrois maître de conférences en civilisation britannique à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. Catherine Mathieu Economiste à l’OFCE,...

• Exhibition at the British Library

  14 octobre 2018 ( #Anglo-Saxon, #Bede, #Beowulf, #British Library, #Domesday Book, #Exhibition, #Kingdoms, #Lindisfarne, #Old English, #Tolkien )

  600 years. 180 spectacular treasures. A once-in-a-generation exhibition. Treasures from the British Library’s own collection, including the beautifully illuminated Lindisfarne Gospels, Beowulf and Bede's Ecclesiastical History, sit alongside stunning...

• Brexit: Why the UK left the EU

  26 juin 2016

  Britain voted Thursday to leave the European Union, a decision that surprised many and one whose consequences still aren’t totally clear. We don’t know quite yet what this will mean for the future of Britain’s economy, its policies, and its relations...

• Take a tour of the UK with these films

  12 juillet 2015

  Approximately 54% of the UK’s population lives in cities. This figure isn’t reflected in the nation’s cinema, however, which suggests that 54% of Britons live in corsets in the past. Despite filmgoers’ continuing predilection for country estates and a...

• King Alfred The Great

  11 octobre 2015 ( #Alfred the Great, #Anglo-Saxon kings, #Anglo-Saxon rulers, #Christian, #King Alfred, #ruler, #scholar, #Vikings, #warrior, #Wessex )

  King Alfred of Wessex (r.871-99) is probably the best known of all Anglo-Saxon rulers, even if the first thing to come into many people’s minds in connection with him is something to do with burnt confectionery. The year 1999 saw the 1100th anniversary...

• Von der Leyen warns UK against breaking international law over Brexit deal

  08 septembre 2020 ( #Boris Johnson, #Brexit, #EU, #Irish border, #negotiations, #no deal, #Northern Ireland, #trade deal, #withdrawal agreement )

  Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European commission, has warned Boris Johnson not to break international law as her Brexit negotiator said he would seek answers over claims that Downing Street is planning to negate parts of the withdrawal agreement....

• Von der Leyen warns UK against breaking international law over Brexit deal

  08 septembre 2020 ( #Boris Johnson, #Brexit, #EU, #Irish border, #negotiations, #no deal, #Northern Ireland, #trade deal, #withdrawal agreement )

  Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European commission, has warned Boris Johnson not to break international law as her Brexit negotiator said he would seek answers over claims that Downing Street is planning to negate parts of the withdrawal agreement....

• The Great Fire of London (1666)

  29 avril 2024 ( #Charles II, #Great Fire, #insurance, #Little Ice Age, #London, #pre-industrial, #Samuel Pepys, #the City, #the Thames )

  2 septembre 1666. Un incendie dans une boulangerie s’étend peu à peu à la Cité de Londres. En quatre jours, avant que le feu ne soit enfin maîtrisé, la ville est ravagée par les flammes. Pourquoi un tel désastre ? Quelles conséquences sur les méthodes...

• Série : Aliénor d'Aquitaine, une reine pour deux royaumes

  24 février 2024 ( #Angevine empire, #Becket, #Eleanor of Aquitaine, #feudalism, #Henry II, #homage, #oath of fealty, #Plantagenets, #queen )

  Episode 2 : À cheval entre l'Aquitaine et l'Angleterre, Aliénor prend les rênes ! À peine divorcée du roi des Francs Louis VII, Aliénor d’Aquitaine épouse l’ambitieux Henri Plantagenêt en 1152. Après avoir été reine de France, elle devient reine d’Angleterre...

• Séminaire en anglais à l'université : 'The contemporaneity of Jane Austen'

  07 novembre 2023 ( #early 19th c. England, #English literature, #English society, #gender, #ideologies, #Jane Austen, #late 18th c. England, #romance, #seminar )

  Séminaire sur la romance sentimentale "The contemporaneity of Jane Austen: the ongoing subversion of canons and ideologies in Romance writing" en anglais. Par Anne Besnault (ERIAC, Université de Rouen) Et Myriam Boussahba (GRIC, Université Le Havre Normandie)...

• L'économie selon George Eliot

  03 août 2022 ( #Agricultural society, #coal, #education, #George Eliot, #Industrial Revolution, #Luddites, #railways, #reform bills, #Victorian England )

  Que nous dit l’œuvre de George Eliot de l’Angleterre du XIXème ? Témoin d’une société rurale confrontée à l’industrialisation naissante, l’écrivaine montre comment le progrès bouleverse les destinées individuelles. avec : Charles-François Mathis (historien),...

• Master Histoire, civilisations et patrimoine - parcours "Cultures de l'écrit et de l'image"

  01 mai 2022 ( #bibliothèque, #conservation, #enssib, #études, #histoire médiévale, #histoire moderne, #image, #master, #patrimoine )

  Ce MASTER est un master d'histoire : il est ouvert prioritairement aux titulaires d'une licence d'histoire. Une connaissance, même sommaire, du latin est utile et appréciée. Pour tous les étudiants : Saisie des candidatures et dépôt des dossiers du 4...

• Exhibition: how Thomas Becket’s murder shook Europe

  11 mai 2021 ( #archbishop, #British Museum, #Canterbury, #Christendom, #exhibition, #Henry II, #London, #murder, #Thomas Becket )

  The murder of Thomas Becket in 1170, cut down inside Canterbury Cathedral by knights of King Henry II’s retinue, sent shock waves throughout England and beyond – an act as scandalous, according to one of his successors as archbishop of Canterbury, Justin...