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Hace 5 días · There are many paintings that represent the British Empire, but The Secret of England’s Greatness (1863) by Thomas Jones Barker is one of the most powerful. It depicts Queen Victoria presenting a bible to a kneeling African chief in the Audience Chamber at Windsor.
Hace 2 días · We are left with a splendid introductory chapter in which Tom Webster deploys a mass of recent research on the landscape to produce a compelling synthesis matched by superb aerial photographs of the face of England and, together with this, a series of chapters that can be broadly called social history.
Hace 5 días · In the realm of television series, BBC period dramas have won the hearts of viewers worldwide. These British period pieces, with their exceptional storytelling, breath-taking costumes, and rich historical backgrounds, lead us down memory lane into distinct eras of Britain's past.
Hace 2 días · THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. The 16th century, which was troubled by many serious dissensions between town and gown, opened with a composition between the two parties, made by three arbitrators under the auspices of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, the mother of King Henry VII (1503).
Hace 5 días · Those stylistic qualities help to explain Trevelyan's aptitude for, and lifelong interest in, military history. Some of the most compelling sections in England under the Stuarts are the accounts of battles of the Civil Wars (Chapters 8-9) and the War of the Spanish Succession (Chapter 15).
Hace 21 horas · To get some distance from his troubles, Martin visited Kinross in England, before returning to New York and driving a cab again. In 1958, Latouche’s old friend Hammond, “who long had taken an interest in Martin, invited the painter to move to his castle in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where the two, according to Gerrit Lansing, discretely conducted an affair,” Pollock writes.
Hace 5 días · During the 1590s and 1600s it had met on an ad hocbasis to deal with a familiar range of disputes over claims to titles, displays of arms and precedence, as well as occasional misdemeanours by heralds and arms painters.
