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This Orient Isle by Jerry Brotton review – spies, merchants and chancers

Edit The Guardian 13 Apr 2016
This sparkling book sets out Elizabethan England’s complex and extensive relationship with the Islamic world. Towards the end of the 16th century, an Arab chronicler wrote of exotic Sultana Isabel, the ruler of a small kingdom under attack by the infidel Spaniard, Philip II ... This was a sure sign that Allah was on her side ... And why not? As Brotton writes ... The fact is, from the 1560s onwards, England was a rebel entity ... ....

Sanskrit texts offered way to Mughals to rule India: Book

Edit The Times of India 07 Apr 2016
In "Culture of Encounters ... This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain intellectuals to King Akbar's court in the 1560s, then details the numerous Mughal-backed texts they and their Mughal interlocutors produced under emperors Akbar, Jahangir (1605 1627), and Shah Jahan (1628 1658) ... (MORE) ZMN ANS ....

Ancient monuments are homes for the poor

Edit Deccan Herald 05 Apr 2016
In the crypt of a 16th-century nationally protected tomb in New Delhi, a family is busy preparing a meal in their brightly painted kitchen that boasts a fridge and electricity ... "We are connected to the shrine ... The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, of which Nanda is chief executive, is also credited with restoring the stunning World Heritage-listed Humayun's Tomb, built in the 1560s for Mughal emperor Humayun, to which tourists flock ... ....

Leaving the EU would be a self-defeating dereliction of duty and history

Edit New Statesman 25 Mar 2016
Why Michael Gove, and Vote Leave, are wrong about Europe. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... Or, as Daniel Hannan MEP sometimes dreams aloud, “Hong Kong to Europe’s China” ... It is simple ... The roots of Lockean democracy – and the right to cashier governments on behalf of the people – can be found in the philosophy of the French Huguenots of the 1560s ... Getty ....

Centuries old remains of two castles found in Glasgow during Scottish Water work (Scottish Water)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Mar 2016
(Source. Scottish Water). Remains found in Glasgow ... Archaeologists unearthed a series of features, including ditches, a well and several stone walls ... But that's all ... Historical records show that Partick Castle was built near the confluence of the rivers Clyde and Kelvin as a retreat for the hierarchy of the Diocese of Glasgow, which was established in 1115 and occupied the castle until the Reformation in the 1560s ... Original Document....

The Brussels attacks are a profound threat to the European project

Edit Vox 22 Mar 2016
On Tuesday morning, two explosions rocked Brussels, a small but unusually significant city in Western Europe. It serves as a crucial administrative hub for the European Union and, not coincidentally, sits at the center of the continent's biggest urban centers. The attacks touch both the political and practical challenges Brussels faces in combating terrorism ... A revolt broke out in the 1560s based on sectarian and other issues ... ....

Is this the real model for Othello?

Edit The Guardian 19 Mar 2016
The Moroccan ambassador to Elizabethan London who has striking similarities to Shakespeare’s noble Moor. Abd al-Wahid bin Masoud bin Muhammad al-Annuri isn’t the kind of name usually associated with Elizabethan portraiture, better known for its pallid, blank-faced English aristocrats ... Twitter ... In the 1560s she wrote to the Persian Shi’a ruler, Shah Tahmasp, offering a commercial alliance between him and her newly formed Muscovy Company....

Witch Hunts in Europe: Timeline

Edit About.com 22 Feb 2016
The history of witchcraft in Europe begins with both folk beliefs and with religious and classical texts. The texts have roots in Hebrew, Greek and Roman history. The development of beliefs about what witchcraft meant -- and especially the history of its gradual identification as a kind of heresy -- takes effect over hundreds of years ... See European Witch Hunts ... 1560s and 1570sA wave of witch hunts were launched in southern Germany ... ....

From Bard to verse... 15 fascinating facts about Shakespeare

Edit Belfast Telegraph 25 Jan 2016
1. Was William Shakespeare - born at Stratford-upon-Avon 1564, died in 1616 - the greatest writer who ever lived? He certainly coined more words than any other wordsmith, bringing 2,035 new words into English, including addiction, dishearten, dwindle, lonely, well-read, multitudinous and hot-blooded. 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... by the 1560s, Mass was an illegal form of worship and by the 1580s Elizabeth's spies were horribly executing any Jesuits caught ... ....

History Returns Violently in the Mediterranean and Beyond

Edit Creators Syndicate 09 Jan 2016
Sometimes you can learn something about today's world from a history book — even a book about obscure characters in a long-ago time in a far-away corner of the planet, featuring conflicts between regimes that ceased existing at least a century ago ... They started off in Ulcinj, a small port on the Adriatic Sea in present-day Montenegro that in the 1560s was part of the sea-connected mercantile empire of the Republic of Venice ... ....

Relics of a religion

Edit Deccan Herald 19 Dec 2015
Museums ... However, there are a few museums devoted to the history of Christianity — particularly its art relics — in the country ... Goa. The first attempt to shape Christianity in Goa through art was made when, in the early 1560s, on the insistence of the Jesuit missionary (in India) João Nunes Barret, the picture of Jesus on the cross (with his mother and St John standing on either sides) was printed and distributed ... Chennai ... ....

Batts and Baubles – Christmas at Oakwell Hall (Kirklees Council)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Dec 2015
(Source. Kirklees Council) ... Talking portraits are among the new interactives which, along with imaginative displays and information panels, bring to life the sights and sounds of the Hall from its origin in the 1560s, through bloody battles of the English Civil War, a 19th Century boarding school, to a much-loved visitor attraction and hugely successful film location ... Christmas shopping with a difference ... - Like on Facebook ... (noodl....

'Toenail Hoard' of 500 coin clippings found in Forest of Dean

Edit BBC News 18 Nov 2015
Hundreds of 16th Century coin clippings have been discovered in a Gloucestershire field. The 500 silver clippings, dubbed the Toenail Hoard, were unearthed by Gavin Warren using a metal detector in the Forest of Dean ... Finds liaison officer Kurt Adams said ... "The earliest clippings date from the reign of Elizabeth I, so 1560s to 1570s, and the latest from 1645," he said ... ....
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