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• Sutton Hoo: Photos of 1939 excavation digitised

  01 octobre 2021 ( #Anglo-Saxons, #archeology, #BBC, #East Anglia, #excavation dig, #photographs, #Sutton Hoo )

  A collection of photos from the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo have been digitised. The excavation was recently the subject of Netflix film The Dig. Hundreds of images can be viewed online and at Sutton Hoo, where the museum has recently reopened after...

• Out of the dark ages: Netflix film about Sutton Hoo

  10 février 2021 ( #Anglo-Saxon, #dark ages, #East Anglia, #king raedwald, #Netflix, #Sutton Hoo, #the dig )

  Read at the source: x “If you mention the Tudors, the Victorians, everyone knows roughly what we’re talking about,” says Howarth. “But the Anglo-Saxons have always been something that we don’t really know where it fits in the timeline. Are they the same...

• Les bâtisseurs de Stonehenge

  28 juin 2020 ( #ancient britain, #cult of the dead, #durrington walls, #megalith, #neolithic, #stonehenge, #winter solstice )

  Au sud de Londres se trouve l'un des monuments préhistoriques les plus célèbres et les plus énigmatiques du monde : Stonehenge. Il y a près de quatre mille cinq cents ans, avec de simples outils de pierre, les hommes du néolithique ont édifié cet immense...

• £369m for Buckingham Palace

  20 novembre 2016 ( #Buckingham Palace, #Civil List, #cost, #monarchy, #MPs, #Queen, #sovereign grant )

  Buckingham Palace is getting a 'necessary' refurbishment costing millions of pounds. The announcement occured on the same day that MPs debated reducing the number of elected representatives as a 'cost saving' measure. On Friday it was announced that the...

• The OED named "post-truth" its 2016 international word of the year

  16 novembre 2016 ( #Brexit, #Brexiteer, #OED, #post-truth, #Trump, #UK, #US )

  The Oxford English Dictionary named "post-truth" its 2016 international word of the year in a fittingly political race that featured terms like "alt-right," "Brexiteer" and "woke," The New York Times reports. The OED defines "post-truth" as "relating...

• In French: airstrikes discussed at the Commons

  26 novembre 2015 ( #airstrikes, #Commons, #David Cameron, #ISIS, #Jeremy Corbyn, #Labour, #Westminster )

  Trente-six pages d’arguments, deux heures et quarante-cinq minutes passées à répondre à 103 questions de députés suffiront-ils ? Le Premier ministre britannique, David Cameron, a-t-il réussi ce jeudi à convaincre les députés de la Chambre des communes...

• Brexit and Article 50

  26 juin 2016 ( #article 50, #Brexit, #David Cameron, #deal, #EU, #European council, #negotiations )

  When David Cameron delivered his resignation speech outside No 10 on Friday, he said he would leave the task of triggering article 50 of the Lisbon treaty – the untested procedure governing how an EU member state leaves the bloc – to his successor. This...

• Why serious history buffs are obsessed with Game of Thrones

  11 avril 2015 ( #Eleanor of Aquitaine, #Joan of Arc, #Matilda, #Plantagenets, #Roman Britain, #Tudor England, #War of the Roses )

  Why on earth would someone like me, who makes her career out of historical facts, harbour a guilty fixation on a swords-and-sorcery fantasy like Game of Thrones? Because the central matter is the genuine stuff of history, strange but familiar, with the...

• New historical drama King and Conqueror

  12 octobre 2024 ( #BBC, #Harold, #Hastings, #Norman Conquest, #William I, #William the Conqueror )

  "In the UK we learn about William the Conqueror, the Battle of Hastings and King Harold’s gruesome death in our school history lessons – but those headlines are all most of us can remember. King and Conqueror will bring Harold and William to life, depicting...

• Dig in Newquay reveals Bronze Age and Roman settlements

  02 mai 2023 ( #archaeology, #Bronze Age, #Cornwall, #Neolithic, #Roman Britain, #roundhouse )

  "Significant" finds dating back to the Bronze Age have been unearthed by archaeologists at a new housing development in Newquay. Three Bronze Age roundhouses, Romano-British buildings and pottery were found by the Cornwall Archaeological Unit at the site...

• Le Cours de l'histoire (France Culture)

  16 avril 2023 ( #agriculture, #animals, #coal, #France, #Industrial Revolution, #machinery )

  Le XIXe siècle est celui du labeur des animaux. Des ateliers aux champs, des mines aux brasseries, les chiens, chevaux et mulets sont un moteur essentiel de l'industrialisation. Avec François Jarrige Historien des sociétés industrielles, maître de conférences...

• Barbados becomes a republic and parts ways with the Queen

  30 novembre 2021 ( #Barbados, #constitutional status change, #head of state, #republic, #slavery, #UK )

  Barbados has officially removed Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and became a republic in an overnight ceremony in the capital of Bridgetown. Dame Sandra Mason was sworn in as president during a midnight event coinciding with the country's 55th...

• Daily Life in Old English – a lexical treasure chest

  09 novembre 2021 ( #Anglo-Saxon, #Beowulf, #English, #English language, #Old English, #Tolkien )

  English has always been a language of immigrants. Even before the Norman conquest, much lamented by Brexiters and Tolkien, the language known as “Old English” was brought to Britain by interlopers from what is now Scandinavia and Germany, and mixed haphazardly...

• The site of an 8th Century monastery that was believed to have been lost has been unearthed next to a church.

  31 août 2021 ( #Anglo-Saxon, #Charlemagne, #coin, #early Middle Ages, #King Offa, #Mercia )

  Dr Gabor Thomas, the University of Reading archaeologist leading the excavation, said: "Cynethryth is a fascinating figure, a female leader who clearly had genuine status and influence in her lifetime. Not only were coins minted with her image, but it...

• Henry VIII's Marie Rose ship

  05 mai 2021 ( #battle of the Solent, #Henry VIII, #Marie Rose, #Tudor, #Tudor Society, #warship )

  One is thought to be an archer raised in the Atlas mountains in north Africa, and another may have been a carpenter who grew up in south-west Spain. Others hailed from closer to home, possibly the bustling ports of the English west country or the Thames...

• The Invisible Border

  03 mars 2020 ( #border, #brevet, #Eire, #EU, #Northern Ireland, #Republic of Ireland )

  Today, the border that divides Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is "soft", in most places you could almost forget that it's there. But for decades it was a deadly flash point in the bitter conflict known as "The Troubles". This week, we share...

• England in the Time of King Richard III

  22 février 2020 ( #Bosworth, #Free University Course, #Leicester, #medieval warfare, #Richard III, #The War of the Roses )

  What topics will you cover? Medieval battles and the Wars of the Roses Peasants and farmers Medieval towns, villages and houses Books, literacy and printing Death and commemoration Food and cooking in the 15th century The discovery and reburial of King...

• Elizabeth I revealed as secret scribe of historic manuscript

  30 novembre 2019 ( #classical history, #Elizabeth I, #handwriting, #manuscript, #monarchical rule, #Tacitus )

  A manuscript written by Queen Elizabeth I has been discovered after lying unnoticed for more than a century. read at the source: BBC Excerpts: "The work is a translation of a book in which the Roman historian Tacitus wrote of the benefits of monarchical...

• The Queen and the Prime Minister

  20 septembre 2019 ( #Boris Johnson, #David Cameron, #Parliament suspension, #Prime Minister, #Queen, #Scottish Referendum )

  Buckingham Palace is not happy with former Prime Minister David Cameron after he revealed that he asked for the Queen's help over the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. So what does the Queen do, exactly? What is the Queen's relationship with the...

• Matilda, a queen in a king's world

  14 septembre 2017 ( #civil war, #Henry I, #Henry II, #Matilda, #Stephen of Blois, #succession )

  Power was inherently and inescapably male in the Middle Ages. The images displayed on the Great Seal of England encapsulated expectations of a medieval monarch: on one side the king sat in state to administer justice to his people, a sceptre in his hand;...

• What is prorogation?

  29 août 2019 ( #Boris Johnson, #Parliament, #Privy Council, #prorogation, #Q&A, #Queen )

  What is prorogation? So is this just normal procedure? Why does Boris Johnson say he is doing this? Can MPs vote against prorogation? How does the privy council come into this? Could the Queen have refused the privy council’s request? How will this affect...

• King Alfred the Great

  16 septembre 2017 ( #Alfred the Great, #Edington, #Guthrum, #King Alfred, #scholar, #translation )

  In 878 King Alfred had to flee for his life when Twelfth Night celebrations at his residence in Chippenham, Wiltshire, were rudely interrupted by a surprise Viking attack, well outside the normal campaigning season. Alfred took refuge in the marshes at...

• England's First Civil War and Game of Thrones

  05 février 2017 ( #First Civil War, #Queen Matilda, #siege, #Stephen of Blois, #the Anarchy, #William's successors )

  England’s first civil war raged for almost 20 years – and outdid Game of Thrones for violence and treachery. Indeed, the 12th-century conflict was so intense it changed the landscape of the nation for decades, according to newly published archaeological...

• the incredible powers you didn't know the monarchy has

  27 novembre 2016 ( #Church of England, #Monarchy, #Queen Elizabeth II, #Royal Assent, #sovereign, #The Crown )

  It's true that her role as the British head of state is largely ceremonial, and the Monarch no longer holds any serious power from day to day. The historic "prerogative powers" of the Sovereign have been devolved largely to government ministers. But this...

• May 'faces 11-0 defeat in Supreme Court'

  30 novembre 2016 ( #Article 50, #Brexit, #High Court, #Parliament, #Supreme Court, #Theresa May )

  Theresa May is heading for an 11-0 defeat when the Supreme Court justices rule on whether Parliament must approve starting Brexit, a law professor has predicted. Professor Michael Zander QC said the High Court judges who ruled the Prime Minister could...