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...When Prime Minister William Pitt declared that Britain would remain neutral after the Revolutionary National Assembly passed the first French constitution in 1791, the cartoonist James Gillray depicted the...
...“It’s gone back to how it was in the 18th century and the way cartoonists like James Gillray were lampooning the royal family on a daily basis,” said Irving....
...Like those of many post-industrial English communities, Barnsley’s town centre is still graced by the relic of a bygone municipal era — a handsome Grade II-listed town hall, from which its local government...
...The Hollywood factor added glamour to the fair, whose arty crowd included actors Jessica Biel and Robert Downey Jr, and basketball superstar LeBron James....
...Their historic, Grade II-listed mansion in Gloucestershire had made headlines years earlier when the couple sought to build a Palladian-style chicken coop at an estimated cost of £150,000....
...He is stretched out on a bespoke sofa designed by Tyler Hays’ design brand BDDW in the airy sitting room of the Grade II-listed house....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...As a keen history buff, the King will be aware that James I’s assumption of divine authority above statute law, his distaste for public ceremonies, fed a reaction that would end with his son Charles’s execution...
...When Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, the Commonwealth in its current form had been in existence for only three years....
...James II fled and William and Mary ushered in a constitutional monarchy, what Healey calls “the last revolution” of 1688-89....
...Visiting these formal rooms, which include a magnificent marble parlour devoted to Bacchus (created by architect James Gibbs and developed by William Kent) and sumptuous thematic bedchambers, is a sensory...
...Labour’s James Callaghan went further than most when he disclosed that she offered holders of that office her “friendliness but not friendship”....
...III’s victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690....
...While Prince Charles seemed to be no great moderniser, his two sons by Diana, William and Harry, returned a more popular image to the royal family, epitomised in 2011 by Prince William's Westminster Abbey...
...(who gave it to his rumoured lover, Piers Gaveston); the Black Prince (father of Richard II); and Lord Williams of Thame, who built the current house on the medieval site....
...James Detert, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, says evolution has hard-wired us not to deviate from our group....
...This week, to mark her platinum jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II gave a tell-all TV interview....
...For Mervyn Gibson, the grand secretary of the loyalist Orange Order known for its annual marches to celebrate the Protestant King William’s victory over the Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne...
...William of Orange, the Protestant leader of the Dutch Revolt, was assassinated in 1584 after Philip II of Spain put a bounty on his head....
...James Walker, the managing director of Walkers Shortbread and Richard Walker, (no relative) the chief executive of frozen-food chain Iceland, are both knighted for their services to the food industry....
...On Monday, there were some smiles, some furrowed brows — including from William, the Prince of Wales, as he walked behind the coffin....
...Soon another liar backed up Oates’s story — William Bedloe, “a Bristol-born counterfeiter, swindler, petty thief and jail bird”, writes Stater....
...William Dalrymple Borobudur, Java My travel discovery of the year was unquestionably Borobudur in Java, the largest and most spectacular Buddhist temple in the world....
...The British sporting world has responded to the death of Queen Elizabeth II with widespread postponements....
...The gallery is in the model village built by its founder William Hesketh Lever to house workers from his soap factory (later Unilever)....
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