nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... dangled a car under the Bridge of Sighs at St John's. King's College Chapel, started in 1446 by Henry VI, is noted for its amazing acoustics and the world famous chapel choir which sings at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve. It took over a century to build and has the largest fan vault ceiling in the world and some of the finest medieval stained glass. It was originally...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
A long and tetchy bond Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450. By Juliet Barker. Little, Brown; 512 pages; GBP20. Buy from Amazon.co.uk THE relationship between England and France has been marked by fear and rivalry since the Norman conquest in 1066. Ties were closest in the later decades of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). Then, in 1431, a ten-year old king of England, Henry VI,...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... 2001 This gore-splattered touring production from the all-male Propeller theatre company presented Henry VI in two parts; the abundance of fake blood led one critic to describe it as 'Shakespeare for the MTV generation'.The Taming Of The Shrew, 2003 Also at Shakespeare's Globe, an all-female cast confronted head-on the misogyny of Shakespeare's trickiest play. Janet McTeer (pictured) played...
Passages to the Past (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... Margaret of Anjou and sets before her a proposal, he will help her overthrow Edward and place Henry VI back on the throne and he secures the agreement with the betrothal of Anne and Prince Edward, Margaret and Henry’s son, the heir to Lancaster. Anne is terrified. She was brought up to hate the Lancastrians and now she is forced to marry the son of her father's worst enemies....
Science, Reason and Critical Thinking (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... for far longer than a weekend flying visit. Muncaster has long been known as the haunt of King Henry VI (who during the Wars of the Roses hid out here after the major defeat of the Lancastrian forces at Hexham in 1464), and the ghost of an apprentice carpenter who had his head hacked off while asleep - and so naturally carries it about with him on his jaunts. The 16th century castle jester...
The Monarchist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
ADDRESS OF THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ON THE OCCASION OF HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE ON THURSDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2009, TO CELEBRATE THE UNIVERSITY'S EIGHT HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ON THE OCCASION OF HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Abundance of unemployed lawyers allows for lower hourly rate William Shakespeare famously suggested in "Henry VI, Part II" that, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
GrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnD (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... to protect and perpetuate the species. Maybe Dick The Butcher's dangerous ditty from from King Henry VI, Part II, (Act IV), Scene 2 bears some scrutiny ? "1st thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Pic - "Dick the Butcher's Vision"
Clout St (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Posted by Todd Lighty at 6 a.m. William Shakespeare famously suggested in Henry VI (Part 2) that, “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.” Well, maybe not so fast. The current Great Recession has led to a...
The Arts Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... are excerpts from “Macbeth,” “Lear” and other Shakespearean tragedies. There’s also a piece from “Henry VI.” Shakespeare is also a character in this play. Register: What does the title refer to? Henderson: It’s about telling the truth and yet managing not to incriminate yourself, which is what certain people had to do when they were being interrogated by the government about their allegiances...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Back in July, at a New National Theatre Tokyo (NNTT) press conference to herald this autumn's special staging of William Shakespeare's nine-hour-long "Henry VI" trilogy, Hitoshi Uyama, 56, its director, declared his intention to go beneath and beyond the blood, guts and gore of the famous epic set during the War of the Roses, England's 15th-century civil war between the House of Lancaster...
Golly s Wine Drops (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
I was out and about for the tourist view of Leicester. I'm doing my best to visit all the tourist attractions in Leicester, today's trip included the fabulous charch of St Mary de Castro at which Chaucer got married and King Henry VI was knighted. this wasn't the highlight according to my guide though, excitement built for the visit to Newarke Houses where Daniel Lambert's trousers are the most...
Roger Griffin's blog (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... in medieval England as well as a piece on the regulation and licensing of alchemists under Henry VI. I would love to hear what you think of my paper in the Compass conference. On the topic of splitters and lumpers — I think both can be appropriate depending on what one wishes to learn. I find that if I need to do number crunching of data — say for statistically analysing the...
The Torch (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... occupation as the fighting continued and the civil war remained unresolved in the decades after Henry’s death in 1422, Mr. Schnerb said. “They came into France saying, ‘You Frenchmen have civil war, and now our king is coming to give you peace,’ ” Mr. Schnerb said. “It was a failure.” Unwilling to blame a failed counterinsurgency strategy [emphasis...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
He said the groats - fourpenny pieces - dated mostly from the reigns of Henry V (1413 - 1422) and Henry VI (1422 - 1460) and were relatively free from corrosion but were worn from being in circulation.
