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• in Entertainment
  Book Review: The Secret History of MI6: 1909 - 1949 by Keith Jeffery
  A thorough, very thorough detailed account of the inner workings of the world’s first spy agency.
  by fcetier / on Jan 16, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “british history”

 

• Gladstone and slavery – the liberal lie?

  
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  By 1892, William Ewart Gladstone was the Grand Old Man of Liberal politics, about to embark on his fourth term of office as Prime Minister at the age of 82. His three previous premierships had followed four spells as Chancellor of the Exchequer and a period as President of the Board of Trade. He was leader of the ...
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• Painting Dickens: New book and exhibition explores the great novelist’s relationship with art

  
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  William Powell Frith, The Crossing Sweeper (1893), oil on canvas Charles Dickens was a remarkably visual writer. Soon to be published by Yale, Dickens and the Artists  is a unique exploration of the artistic tastes of this celebrated novelist, tracing the relationship between Dickens and visual art. Today we ...
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• Keane Block Tenacious D’s ‘Rize’ to the Top of the Official Album Chart – Official Charts Company - Source

  
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  NME.com Keane block Tenacious Ds Rize to the top of the Official Album Chart Official Charts Company In addition to famously keeping The Beatles classic Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields from the top of the Official Singles Chart with Release Me, Engelbert became the first solo artist in British chart history to achieve ...
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• The Real Dr Dee: Author article by Glyn Parry

  
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  A 16th-century portrait of John Dee by an unknown artist Historian Glyn Parry discusses the subject of his new biography  The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee , a book which ‘rescues Dr Dee from the shadows of his own secrecy and restored him as a glittering light in the magical Elizabethan firmament’ ( ...
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• The Story Behind A Darkly Hidden Truth by Donna Fletcher Crow

  
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  The Story Behind A Darkly Hidden Truth By Donna Fletcher Crow It’s always the story that drives me. I want to tell the story. Especially the stories of valiant men and women of centuries past who still shape our thinking and living today. So in the year 2001, after publishing more than 35 novels, most [...]
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• The Restoration of Rise Hall

  
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  Rise Hall was built in the early 19 th Century and is situated in Yorkshire in the UK. Unfortunately, like many country homes in the UK, Rise Hall was left to fall in to a state of disrepair for many years because the previous owners did not have the inclination nor the funds available to maintain the hug property. ...
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• Through the looking glass

  
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  A few years ago, at a stall for the charity Combat Stress, we were approached by a woman who recalled her father’s experiences of living with the traumatic effects of war. Unlike many people, where the effects are sometimes immediate or can show symptoms later on in life, for this woman, her father’s recollections ...
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