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First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 Documents

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Queen Elizabeth Invites Close Friends On Royal Barge

Queen Elizabeth28th May 2012 Britain's Queen Elizabeth has chosen to invite close friends instead of world leaders on her royal barge for the Diamond Jubilee river pageant on London's River Thames on Sunday (03.06.12). Britain's Queen Elizabeth has chosen ... [ Published 4 hours ago by FemaleFirst.co.uk ]

Entities: Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Donald Gosling

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 Documents

The death of celebrity historians is much exaggerated | Richard J Evans

Don't write celebrity TV historians off just yet – as long as they don't stray from their expertise For about 15 years, history has been experiencing a popularity boom. History books now sell more than 5 million copies a year in the UK and feature regularly ... [ Published 19 hours ago by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Celebrity, Orlando Figes, David Starkey

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Simon Schama

The Week In Radio: How the cry-baby British lost their Blitz spirit

There was a moment at the beginning of Radio 4's terrific documentary A History of the Stiff Upper Lip when I briefly found myself looking with fondness on the days when we knew how to cope with catastrophe, which was to dust oneself down, reapply one's ... [ Published May 24 2012 by The Independent ]

Entities: Simon Schama, Peter Hitchens, T. E. Lawrence

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 1 Documents

The Weekend's Viewing: Off by Heart Shakespeare, Sat, BBC2 Episodes, Fri, BBC2

The best three then deliver Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy and one of them wins a trophy. And here are the fears that such a proposal might generate: we don't really want to watch children doing Shakespeare because thespian precocity can be really ... [ Published May 21 2012 by The Independent ]

Entities: Imogen Stubbs, Daisy Haggard, Sam West, Simon Schama, Samuel West

First Reported May 19 2012 - Updated May 19 2012 - 1 Documents

Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Paxman gets wordy with Shakespeare

The Newsnight presenter and Imogen Stubbs share their favourite lines from the Bard's complete worksCommentsShare this episodeWritten ByClaire WebbAs a BBC contest to find teenagers born to recite the Bard reaches its climax, we ask the experts for their ... [ Published May 19 2012 by Radio Times ]

Entities: Jeremy Paxman, Imogen Stubbs, Prunella Scales, Timothy West

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Once more unto the breach... Amy bids for victory in Shakespeare final

To be or not to be? That is the question which will be answered this Saturday, when TV viewers find out if a Co Down schoolgirl has has triumphed in the first national Shakespeare recital contest for teenagers.Amy McAteer (15), from Holywood, is a GCSE ... [ Published May 18 2012 by Belfast Telegraph ]

Entities: William Shakespeare, Imogen Stubbs, Simon Schama, Samuel West, Jeremy Paxman

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 1 Documents

Bettany Hughes

Why telly-dons like David Starkey, Lucy Worsley and Bettany Hughes get top marks

Those historians who accuse their TV-presenting colleagues of dumbing down the subject are stuck in the past. We were doing the Tudors. My nice?but-dull history tutor was giving me a reading list for the following weeks essay in the cosy confines of his ... [ Published May 10 2012 by Telegraph ]

Entities: Bettany Hughes, David Starkey, Niall Ferguson

First Reported Feb 23 2012 - Updated Feb 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Adele and her ilk have mangled the ancient art of rhetoric | Simon Jenkins

Awards ceremonies highlight the amateurism of modern public speeches – most are an exercise in tedium and tortureAdele's finger is not the issue. Nor is it the tyrannical "suits" who cut off the Brit Award winner's speech in full flow on Tuesday. Nor ... [ Published Feb 23 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Simon Jenkins, Damon Albarn, Grammy Awards

First Reported Dec 23 2011 - Updated Dec 23 2011 - 1 Documents

On My Nightstand: Wendy Lamb's Nighttime Reading

This column should be called What Im Not Reading, because my nightstand collection is best described as aspirational: mostly books I long to read. Books arrive, do not leave, and become semi-furniture. I live in an apartment, so my nightstand is also ... [ Published Dec 23 2011 by PublishersWeekly.com ]

Entities: Alfred Kazin, Julie Salamon, Francine Prose, Wendy Wasserstein, Walker Percy

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