Martin McGuinness has resigned as deputy first minister of Northern Ireland. In doing so he has also, effectively, sacked the first minister, Arlene Foster – for under the Good Friday agreement, neither post is filled without the other. What shocked reporters...
We’ve all heard stories about King Arthur of Camelot, who according to medieval legend led British forces (including his trusted Knights of the Round Table) in battle against Saxon invaders in the early sixth century. But was King Arthur actually a real...
Most royals are proud that they can trace their lineage back centuries. But princesses Beatrice and Eugenie may be reluctant to delve too far into their past. New analysis reveals that Prince Andrew’s daughters are the direct descendants of a major slave-owning...
When she finished her first draft of Suffragette, Abi Morgan had a sudden realisation: she had written the wrong film. “I originally started out with this idea of Romola [Garai]’s character, an upper-class, aristo cratic woman who was bored and suppressed,”...
Three senior judges ruled on Thursday that the British government does not have the authority to proceed with the UK’s exit from the European Union without the approval of parliament. A legal challenge to the prime minister’s power to trigger article...
For the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, Horrible Histories returns for a one-off special looking at the disaster and the events that surrounded it. On the night of 2 September, a spark from a baker’s oven in Pudding Lane ignited a fire...
Le roi Charles Ier, dès son accession au trône en 1625, pensait que l’avenir en Angleterre était à la monarchie absolue. Mais ses vues, empruntées à la France ou à l’Espagne, ne purent s’imposer. Le passé anglais lui résista : la vieille Common Law qu’on...
Henri VIII, roi d’Angleterre et d’Irlande de 1509 à 1547, est resté dans l’histoire pour avoir épousé six femmes… et en avoir fait exécuter deux. Raisons pour lesquelles il a servi de modèle au conte de Perrault La Barbe bleue. Le plus dur fut de passer...
As the Queen prepares to overtake Victoria as our longest-reigning monarc h, she is being compared with the Queen Empress. It is true that both women became icons of their country. Both represent an idea of stability and duty. But they are also extreme...
Thomas Cromwell: the Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant Tracy Boorman Hodder & Stoughton, 464pp, £25 The Hollow Crown: the Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors Dan Jones Faber & Faber, 480pp, £20 It cannot have gone unnoticed by...
Who were her parents? Jane Seymour was born at Wulfhall in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire. The fact that 29 ladies rode in her funeral procession in 1537 – traditionally one for every year of life – suggests that she was born between October 1507 and October...
David Ricardo et Thomas Malthus sont considérés comme des acteurs fondamentaux de la construction de la société britannique du XIXe siècle. Depuis quarante ans, l'économie se mondialise selon la vision de David Ricardo de "l'avantage comparatif" et en...
Incorporé en 1915 au 11e régiment de fusiliers du Lancashire, le second lieutenant J.R.R.Tolkien participa en juillet 1916 à la sanglante Bataille de la Somme qui fit près de 450.000 morts, dont plus de 200.000 Britanniques. Tolkien échappera à la mort,...
On Thursday, a king of England will be buried for the second time in his green and pleasant land. This time, however, as a nation, we’ll be doing it right. More than 500 years after his death in August 1485, King Richard III, the last Plantagenet king,...
En 1517, le moine Martin Luther affiche sur la porte de l'église de la Toussaint à Wittemberg ses "95 thèses". Le Réformateur accuse l'Église d'abuser de son pouvoir en promettant le purgatoire en échange du versement d'une somme d'argent. Cet épisode...
A Roman villa complex containing a one-of-a-kind mosaic has been discovered beneath a farmer’s field in Rutland. The mosaic is the first example in the UK displaying scenes from Homer’s The Iliad, and one of only a handful from across Europe. It is considered...
A Roman villa complex containing a one-of-a-kind mosaic has been discovered beneath a farmer’s field in Rutland. The mosaic is the first example in the UK displaying scenes from Homer’s The Iliad, and one of only a handful from across Europe. It is considered...
En 1517, le moine Martin Luther affiche sur la porte de l'église de la Toussaint à Wittemberg ses "95 thèses". Le Réformateur accuse l'Église d'abuser de son pouvoir en promettant le purgatoire en échange du versement d'une somme d'argent. Cet épisode...
A Roman villa complex containing a one-of-a-kind mosaic has been discovered beneath a farmer’s field in Rutland. The mosaic is the first example in the UK displaying scenes from Homer’s The Iliad, and one of only a handful from across Europe. It is considered...
En 1347, la peste arrive en Europe et s’y propage par épisodes jusqu’au XVIIIe siècle. Si les médecins ne parviennent pas à guérir les malades, comment leur influence a-t-elle été renforcée et comment la terrible peste a-t-elle donné naissance aux premières...
Gunpowder, sleaze, and (lost the) plot.
Archaeologists working on the route of the HS2 high-speed railway have found the remains of an Anglo-Saxon church. More than 40 archaeologists excavating the area discovered flint walls forming a square structure underneath the Norman church. It is believed...
David Lowery’s latest film, The Green Knight starring Dev Patel, is a loose adaptation of the epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , a late 14th-century chivalric romance originally written in Middle English. One of the most well-known Arthurian...
Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens , which runs until 20 February 2022, takes a fresh and revealing look at the infamous story of two powerful queens bound together by their shared Tudor heritage, whose turbulent relationship dominated English...
Figure mythique de l’Occident médiéval, le roi Arthur a-t-il vraiment existé ? La chercheuse britannique Alice Roberts mène l’enquête. Après quatre cents ans de présence en Grande-Bretagne, l’armée romaine finit par se retirer au début du Ve siècle. Le...
