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• Is the referendum officially binding?

  26 juin 2016 ( #article 50, #brexit, #deal, #EU, #parliament, #referendum )

  The simple answer to the question as to whether the EU referendum is legally binding is “no”. In theory, in the event of a vote to leave the EU, David Cameron, who opposes Brexit, could decide to ignore the will of the people and put the question to MPs...

• In French: new grammar schools to open

  12 septembre 2016 ( #comprehensive, #conservatives, #education, #grammar school, #school system, #Theresa May )

  Deux mois seulement après son entrée en fonction, la première ministre britannique, Theresa May, a décidé de s’attaquer à un dossier auquel aucun gouvernement n’a osé toucher depuis près de deux décennies. Elle a annoncé, vendredi 9 septembre, qu’elle...

• In French - Bruxelles durcit le ton envers Theresa May

  01 décembre 2016 ( #Article 50, #Brexit, #EU, #free movement, #Theresa May, #UK negotiating strategy )

  « Diviser les 27 pour obtenir un meilleur Brexit. » La vieille devise impériale est remise au goût du jour par la première ministre britannique à quatre mois de l’échéance qu’elle s’est fixée pour ouvrir la procédure de divorce avec l’Union européenne....

• In French: Agincourt

  31 décembre 2015 ( #Agincourt, #Crécy, #Henry V, #Hundred Years' War, #Normandy, #Poitiers )

  Il y a six siècles, le 25 octobre 1415, eut lieu la bataille d’Azincourt qui constitue la plus cinglante défaite française de la guerre de Cent Ans. Le paradoxe est que le roi anglais, Henri V, voulait éviter cet affrontement car les 6 000 soldats anglais,...

• What does the greek deal mean for the UK's EU renegotiation?

  13 juillet 2015 ( #david cameron, #deal, #EU, #Greece, #referendum, #renegotiation )

  A charismatic and controversial politician is elected with 36 per cent of the vote promising European reform. Our country can't take anymore of this, he says. It's time for change, he says. Unfortunately, the other constituent nations of the European...

• Brexit and EU Law

  30 juin 2016 ( #Brexit, #constitutional law, #EU Law, #EU membership, #remain arguments, #sovereignty )

  Professor Michael Dougan (pictured above) — an EU legal expert specialising in constitutional law — made headlines earlier this month after a video (embedded below) of him explaining the potential consequences of Brexit went viral. The Cambridge-educated...

• Thomas More

  19 janvier 2015 ( #Henry VIII, #Thomas Cromwell, #Thomas More, #Tudor, #Utopia, #Wolf Hall )

  No matter how controversial the standing of a great statesman, the passing of almost 500 years since his death might be expected to settle opinion one way or the other. Yet the power of a popular historical account, most recently Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker...

• Richard III's DNA and another mystery

  12 décembre 2014 ( #Edward III, #Henry Tudor, #Henry VII, #Leicester, #Richard III, #Tudors )

  Analysis of DNA from Richard III has thrown up a surprise: evidence of infidelity in his family tree. Scientists who studied genetic material from remains found in a Leicester car park say the finding might have profound historical implications. Depending...

• In French: The Rise of UKIP

  20 novembre 2014 ( #Conservatives, #David Cameron, #European Union, #Labour, #Nigel Farage, #UKIP )

  Stratégiquement situé en surplomb de l’estuaire de la Medway sur la route de Londres, le superbe château de Rochester a résisté à bien des invasions depuis le Moyen Age. Défendra-t-il David Cameron, jeudi 20 novembre, contre l’humiliation d’une nouvelle...

• Things you might not know about Richard III

  21 mars 2015 ( #Bosworth, #Leicester, #Plantagenet, #Richard III, #Shakespeare, #The War of the Roses )

  Richard III is getting buried on Thursday – more than 500 years after his death and less than three years after his bones were found under a car park in Leicester. His interment at the city’s Cathedral will be presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury...

• being Catholic in England in the 17th century

  29 décembre 2014 ( #book review, #Catholics, #Elizabethan England, #Gunpowder Plot, #religion, #Tudor England )

  God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England Jessie Childs Bodley Head, 464pp, £25 The stakes were high, the choice an agonising and unavoidable one for Catholics in England: loyalty to the queen or to the pope. No longer could people be subject...

• Blitz (trailer)

  23 novembre 2024 ( #Blitz, #film, #London, #trailer, #WW2 )

  Sir Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home...

• King Arthur's Tomb?

  24 août 2022 ( #excavations, #King Arthur, #Legend, #Neolithic, #tomb )

  King Arthur, the mythical ruler of Camelot, may be best known for pulling the magical sword Excalibur from a stone, but there's another rock formation that bears his name hidden away in the English countryside. Archaeologists are for the first time excavating...

• The Great Famine (documentary)

  30 novembre 2021 ( #great famine, #Ireland, #laissez-faire, #Potato blight, #Robert peel )

  La grande famine en Irlande Retour parfaitement documenté sur l'un des épisodes les plus sombres de l'histoire de l’Europe : l’effroyable famine de 1845-1851 qui fit un million de morts dans une Irlande méprisée par la Grande-Bretagne. C’est l’histoire...

• PM is fined for breaching lockdown rules

  19 avril 2022 ( #BBC, #British Constitution, #constitutional crisis, #lockdown, #Prime Minister )

  Boris Johnson's fine for breaching lockdown rules is the "most severe constitutional crisis involving a prime minister", a historian has said. History of government expert Lord Hennessy told the BBC Mr Johnson had "broken the law", "misled Parliament"...

• Welsh church uncovers stunning medieval wall paintings

  09 septembre 2021 ( #church, #painted walls, #Saint George, #seven deadly sins, #Wales )

  After five years of restoration work, the church is revealing its treasures: startlingly bold images of the seven deadly sins, a royal family, a ghoulish death figure - and what has been described as one of the largest and most spectacular tableaux of...

• Documentary about Henry VIII in French on Arte (February 2021)

  05 février 2021 ( #Break with Rome, #Henry VIII, #Reformation, #Renaissance, #Tudor )

  Henry VIII (1/3) - The young prince Henry VIII (2/3) - The break with Rome Henry VIII (3/3) - Power and intrigues a vie tumultueuse du roi d’Angleterre et d’Irlande Henri VIII, dont le règne fut marqué par le schisme avec Rome. Portrait d’un monarque...

• Disparition de l'historien français Bernard Cottret

  14 juillet 2020 ( #Bernard Cottret, #Cromwell, #Elizabeth I, #Glorious Revolution, #Tudor )

  La révolution anglaise : une rébellion britannique 1603-1660, Perrin (2018) La glorieuse Révolution d'Angleterre : 1688 , Gallimard (2013) Histoire de l'Angleterre : de Guillaume le Conquérant à nos jours , Tallandier (2019) Les Tudors : la démesure et...

• The impact of the Norman Conquest of England on the English langage

  25 octobre 2020 ( #Conquest of England, #English, #French, #language, #William the Conqueror )

  Si l'anglais est d'abord une langue germanique, il doit une bonne partie de son lexique et de sa syntaxe grammaticale au français, depuis que le duc de Normandie, Guillaume le conquérant, est monté sur le trône d'Angleterre, en 1066, après sa victoire...

• Bonnie Prince Charlie

  31 décembre 2019 ( #Bonnie Prince Charlie, #Culloden, #Jacobite plots, #Outlander, #Stuart )

  December 31, 2019 Dr Jacqueline Riding is an associate research fellow in the School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London, who specialises in 18th- and early 19th-century British history and art. She is the author of Jacobites: A New History...

• Kaamelott, un livre d’histoire

  21 juillet 2021 ( #history, #kaamelott, #King Arthur, #myth, #round table )

  La série télévisée Kaamelott qui met en scène le roi Arthur et les chevaliers de la Table Ronde a marqué le public par son humour décapant, ses personnages loufoques et ses répliques devenues cultes. Mais faut-il prendre au sérieux la façon dont elle...

• Barbados to remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state

  20 septembre 2020 ( #barbados, #British monarchy, #Caribbeans, #commonwealth, #head of state )

  Barbados has announced its intention to remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic. "The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind," the Caribbean island nation's government said. It aims to complete the process in time...

• Economic migrants central to shaping medieval England

  19 août 2020 ( #economic migrants, #medieval England, #Middle Ages, #migrants, #migration )

  There has never been an isolated, insular “Little England”, with migrants arriving throughout the Middle Ages and influencing the nation’s language, culture and identity, according to a new history. Economic migration was far more commonplace in medieval...

• How the new Commons Speaker was elected | Red Box

  17 décembre 2019 ( #election, #House of Commons, #John Bercow, #Speaker, #UK Parliament )

  Sir Lindsay Hoyle promised last night to ensure that the “tarnish is polished away” to restore the reputation of the Commons after MPs chose him to replace John Bercow as Speaker. Sir Lindsay, 62, was dragged to the chair in the traditional ceremony to...

• Government will lose Brexit supreme court case

  11 janvier 2017 ( #Brexit, #Government, #High Court ruling, #Parliament, #Supreme Court )

  Cabinet ministers have privately conceded that they are very likely to lose a landmark legal case on Brexit in the supreme court and have drawn up at least two versions of a bill that could be tabled after the ruling. Sources have told the Guardian that...