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Michael Gove, Oliver Stone, And Why History Is Too Important to Be 'Untold'.

Shaun Varga | Posted 17.06.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Politics, History, Education, Education Reform, Teaching, Oliver Stone, Michael Gove, UK Universities & Education News
Shaun Varga

Michael Gove is currently suggesting that British History should form at least 40% of the GCSE syllabus. And Oliver Stone thinks Americans need to learn more about their history (or at least, his version of their history, in 'The Untold history of the United States'). Both of them may have a point.

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Where the Hell is the Quality Movement in Genealogy?

Scott Phillips | Posted 14.06.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Genealogy, Family History, Ancestry, UK History, Quality Genealogy, Family Tree, Grandparents, UK Lifestyle News
Scott Phillips

I have encountered many pundits screaming the demand that all genealogy MUST be shared, open, and available to all (no, it does not). Funny they never care about the quality of what gets shared. I encountered many others just screaming anything in an effort to simply grow the pool of potential money for themselves.

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For Father's Day: The Merry Monarch's Fruitful Loins

Adrian Teal | Posted 13.06.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Adrian Teal, History, The Gin Lane Gazette, Father's Day, UK Entertainment News
Adrian Teal

With Father's Day imminent, it seems a fitting moment to pay tribute to a sovereign with staggeringly fruitful loins. King Charles II was 'The Daddy'...

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Putin - A Byzantine Emperor in All but Name

Peter Frankopan | Posted 12.06.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Russia President Vladimir Putin, Byzantine Empire, UK History, UK World, UK Politics, UK Politics News
Peter Frankopan

Despite Putin's immense power (and rumoured vast wealth), he consistently presents himself as a servant of his people - a trick learned from the Emperors of Byzantium. His divorce, announced last week with his wife at his side after seeing a performance of La Esmeralda, was straight from the imperial textbooks.

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Vine - the app: Francis Ford Everyone

Chris Dangerfield | Posted 11.06.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: History, Social Media, Self, Social Networking, Vine, Film, Movies, UK-Tech-2013, UK Apple, UK Tech News
Chris Dangerfield

If you haven't checked out Vine, I recommend it. You get 6.5 seconds to make a simple stop and start, edit when filming, movie. You touch the screen and it records, lift your finger from the screen and it pauses. That's it, 6.5 seconds of barbaric jump-cuts. What's weirdly enchanting is its absolute gluttony.

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Wikipedia's New Text-Editor Will Change World History

Thomas Church | Posted 11.06.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Wikipedia, Politics, History, Social Media, Crime, Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing, Technology, UK-Tech-2013, UK-Google, UK Tech News
Thomas Church

The longer it takes for Wikipedia volunteers to spot this, the more opportunity marketers will have for creating loops and false verifications. History won't be re-written, it'll be lied into existence.

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The Real King Arthur

Endeavour Press | Posted 10.06.2013 | UK
Read More: History, Legends, Paul Bannister, Rome, Roman, King Arthur, UK History, Arthurian, UK News
Endeavour Press

The real King Arthur was a Celt who stole a Roman fleet and declared himself emperor of Britain, says an investigative journalist who may have located the legendary king's grave.

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Coronation TV - The Breakthrough From Posh to Popular Culture

Roz Morris | Posted 04.06.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Broadcasting, Itv, Coronation Street, Bbc, The Coronation, Tv, Royal Family, The Queen, UK, History, Queen's Coronation, Popular Culture, UK Entertainment News
Roz Morris

Now that we are all looking at the Coronation again on its 60th anniversary, I can see that the Coronation being broadcast on TV was the real start of the new era when posh began to give way to popular culture.

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18th-Century Spitting Image

Adrian Teal | Posted 03.06.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Gin Lane Gazette, Georgians, History, Spitting Image, Caricature, UK-Culture, UK Entertainment, Cartoon, UK Arts, UK Entertainment News
Adrian Teal

Amongst the formative experiences of my childhood are the regular trips I used to take to the workshop that produced extraordinary caricature puppets for the satirical 1980s TV show Spitting Image. I would poke around excitedly in the huge puppet storage room, and get under the overworked caricaturists' feet.

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Was "The White Queen" Actually "The Wrong Queen?"

Amy Licence | Posted 31.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Marriage, History, May Day, Customs, Bbc, Wars of the Roses, Historical Fiction, Elizabeth Wydeville, Period Drama, Edward IV, The White Queen, Love, Philippa Gregory, UK News
Amy Licence

With the screening of the BBC's White Queen drama series only weeks away, many questions about the life of Elizabeth Wydeville remain unanswered. None more so than that of her marriage.

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Spurs: Ultimately, What IS the Point of Them?

Rob Atkinson | Posted 26.05.2013 | UK Sport
Read More: History, Manchester United, Soccer, Football, Champions League, Spurs, Arsenal, London, Tottenham Hotspur, UK Football, Gareth Bale, UK Sport, UK Sport News
Rob Atkinson

Spurs have two major problems: the first is that they haven't been Champions since 1961 - a major flaw for a club with any pretensions to size and a place in the forefront of the game. The second problem may be succinctly summed-up as 'Arsenal FC'.

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King Richard III Buried In 'Hasty And Untidy' Grave

PA | Posted 24.05.2013 | UK
Read More: UK History, UK News, Tudors, Leicester University, Tudor Plantagenets, Richard III, Shakespeare, Archaeology, Henry VIII, Tower of London, UK News

The remains of King Richard III, which were discovered under a city car park, were found in a hastily dug, untidy grave, researchers have revealed. ...

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Stopping Crime With a Tour Guide?

Gabriel Byng | Posted 23.05.2013 | UK
Read More: UK, History, British History, Birmingham, UK News
Gabriel Byng

It is not the just the stories of kings and queens, prime ministers and politicians that matter to the way we live now. Britain's history also takes place in the suburbs and countryside which still provide the backbone of our industry and agriculture.

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Europe's Fables: The Legend of European Integration

Gregor Cubie | Posted 23.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: EU Referendum, Politics, History, European Union, Europe, European History, Student Politics, UK Students, UK Universities & Education News
Gregor Cubie

It is becoming increasingly likely that we in Britain are going to be faced with an in-out referendum on our membership of the European Union in the next couple of years. In order to help reframe and hopefully reenforce our understanding of Europe, I have decided to tell its story in the form of a fable. This is a true story although its truth is not necessarily contained in the individual events described.

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The Marginalized Alexander Pope

Robert McNamee | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Literature, Alexander Pope, Voltaire, Windsor Forest, Disease, Catholic, Anniversary, Marginalized, History, UK Books, UK Culture, UK Entertainment News
Robert McNamee

Spring 2013 marks two significant anniversaries for Alexander Pope, perhaps the most representative and alien English poet of the 18th Century.

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LOOK: Fossil Named After Edward Scissorhands

The Huffington Post UK\ | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Imperial-College-London, History, UK News, Edward Scissorhands, Johnny Depp, Scorpion, Lobster, Archaeology, Fossil, UK News

An ancient species has been named after Edward Scissorhands because of the shape of its claws. The 505 million-year-old 'Kootenichela deppi' - a no...

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The King's Head

PA | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Richard Iii Found, History, Leicester, UK News, UK Monarchy, King Richard Skeleton, King Richard III, UK News

A facial reconstruction of King Richard III is going on display in Leicester's Guildhall on the first stop of a nationwide tour. The model, which g...

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Workers Celebrate Four Years Of CrossRail Construction

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK
Read More: History, Transport, UK News, Excavation, Archaeology, London, Crossrail, UK News

Crossrail workers have celebrated a full year of tunnelling by dedicating a birthday cake to one of their boring machines, Phyllis. The faithful ...

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That Mr Men Speech and Why Mr Gove Is Not Mr Right

Hilary Robinson | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Genocide, History, Germany, Nazi Germany, Aaron Stebbings, World War Two, George Orwell, Hitler, Children's University, World War One, Soviet Union, Weimar Republic, Andrew Marr, Third Reich, Hilary Robinson, Michael Gove, Russel Tarr, Oxford University, Mr Men, The Times, UK Universities & Education News
Hilary Robinson

Having gone to a comprehensive school in an area of considerable social depravation I can speak for talented teachers who were specially selected for their ability to maintain control and to enthuse their students with imaginative and inspired ideas.

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Anne Damer: Georgian Transvestite, Lesbian, & Sculptress

Adrian Teal | Posted 16.06.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: UK History, History, Cartoons, Transvestite, Lesbian, Women's History, Sculpture, Antiques, UK Culture, UK Arts, Anne Damer, UK Entertainment News
Adrian Teal

One dank Saturday afternoon last year, I snapped up the Georgian portrait you see here in a near-empty Northamptonshire junk shop. I haggled him down to £8. Even so, you might think I was robbed, since it is a fairly unremarkable picture. But the lady shown was one of the more interesting characters of the late 1700s.

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Who Do You Think You Are?

Sara Sheridan | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: History, Geneology, Nationalism, Women's Issues, Japanese, Slavery, Scottish Independence, Siberia, Identity, Mongolia, Jewish, UK Culture, UK Lifestyle News
Sara Sheridan

I have to admit to a certain amount of confusion of late. I was asked recently by a friend 'what' I considered myself. I live in Scotland and here, in the run up to the referendum on independence next autumn, most people are trying to figure out, in essence, if they're more Scottish than British or vice versa.

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Economic Justice Is An Inevitability

Liam McLaughlin | Posted 13.05.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Economic Justice, History, Occupy, Small Government, Emancipation, Big Government, Occupy Movement, Freedom, Oppression, UK Issues, UK Politics, UK Equality, UK Politics News
Liam McLaughlin

Today the issue of economic justice is among the most polarizing and provocative we have. Watching the arguments for and against is often like bloodsport. Is the level of inequality an accurate measure of a country's success? Are bankers or socialists the enemy?

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To Drown or Not to Drown: The Sixteenth Century Suicide That Inspired Hamlet

Amy Licence | Posted 13.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Literature, UK, Law, History, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Canterbury, UK Lifestyle News
Amy Licence

I live in Canterbury. It's not the only English city overflowing with history but it is a compact little circle, with plenty of Norman, medieval and T...

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Felicity A Morse

Gove's Historical Research Based On Premier Inn Polls And Regurgitated Press Releases

HuffingtonPost.com | Felicity A Morse | Posted 13.05.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: History Teaching, Gove's History Curriculum, History, Premier Inn, UK News, National Union of Teachers, Gove, Michael Gove, UK Politics News

Michael Gove has come under fire after basing claims that children had “disturbing historical ignorance” on a handful of PR surveys, including pol...

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English Heritage To Pay For School Trips In Deprived Areas

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Education News, History, Coaches, UK News, History Bus Scheme, Michael Gove, UK Schools, English Heritage, School Trips, UK News

Schools that cannot afford the travel expense of taking pupils on trips are to have the costs of coaches covered by English Heritage. The price of ...

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