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New Statesman Monarchy Week 2016

Edit New Statesman 16 May 2016
Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1399. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... If we're being a bit vague about the exact date, well, our beloved monarch only has herself to blame ... as far back as the reign of George II in the 1740s, the UK has also celebrated an official birthday for the monarch in summer, in the hope of better weather ... Anyway ... Enjoy. Lines of Duty ... Getty. ....

Is Claire Trying to Prevent Another Revolution on Outlander?

Edit New York Magazine 15 May 2016
Spoilers ahead for the Saturday night’s episode of Outlander. This season on Outlander, time-traveling heroine Claire's been very focused on changing history. preventing a would-be revolution, the Jacobite insurrection that culminates in the Battle of Culloden. But since she's been hanging out in 1740s Paris, you might have wondered whether ... More » ... ....

Danny Healy-Rea’s climate claims: do they pass the science test?

Edit The Irish Times 05 May 2016
Danny Healy-Rea’s wholesale dismissal of climate change and its consequences may be heartfelt but it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny ... Climate Change. He rightly says there have been patterns of climate change going back over the millennia, long before humans could have had any impact ... The ‘combustible engine’ ... We didn’t have internal combustion engines in the 1740s but we do now, an estimated 2.5 million of them in cars alone. Carbon tax ... ....

Danny Healy-Rae’s climate claims: do they pass the scientific test?

Edit The Irish Times 05 May 2016
Danny Healy-Rea’s wholesale dismissal of climate change and its consequences may be heartfelt but it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny ... Climate Change. He rightly says there have been patterns of climate change going back over the millennia, long before humans could have had any impact ... The ‘combustible engine’ ... We didn’t have internal combustion engines in the 1740s but we do now, an estimated 2.5 million of them in cars alone. Carbon tax ... ....

Do Danny Healy-Rae’s climate claims pass scientific scrutiny?

Edit The Irish Times 05 May 2016
Dick Ahlstrom. Danny Healy-Rae’s wholesale dismissal of climate change and its consequences may be heartfelt but it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny ... Climate Change. He rightly says there have been patterns of climate change going back over the millennia, long before humans could have had any impact ... The ‘combustible engine’ ... We didn’t have internal combustion engines in the 1740s but we do now, an estimated 2.5 million of them in cars alone....

A passage through India

Edit The Hindu 28 Apr 2016
It takes a William Dalrymple to fill malls and college halls with crowds that will wait hours for him to arrive, and hang on his every word while he launches a book that’s over a year old ... It’s a cold, harsh winter in November, 1837 ... Chapter two cuts to the Madras of the 1740s, to the rivalry between Robert Clive and Marquis Dupleix that unfolded here, and proceeds to trace the Company’s expansion henceforth ... Keywords....

Handel at Vauxhall Vol 1 review: ranges from slightly yokelish to sophisticatedly pastoral

Edit The Irish Times 21 Apr 2016
 . Album. ... Limerick-born, London-based conductor Bridget Cunningham has assembled music by Handel, Arne and Hebden to recreate “the first act in a typical evening’s concert” from Vauxhall in the 1740s....

The 9 sexiest shows on US TV that we can't believe were allowed to happen, from Game of Thrones to Rome

Edit Digital Spy 20 Apr 2016
​Americans might have a reputation for being prudes compared to us liberal Brits… but that's complete and utter nonsense ... But it's not just the pure volume of sex scenes but the content within them ... 2 ... 4 ... 5 ... 7 ... Ew. 8. OUTLANDER (2014-present) On the face of it, a TV show about a World War II nurse finding herself transported back to Scotland in the 1740s doesn't sound that racy ... Phew, is it getting hot in here? 9 ... Ahem. ....

Stratford-upon-Avon marks 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death

Edit Toronto Sun 19 Apr 2016
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, United Kingdom -- Rev. Francis Gastrell would be harrowed with fear and wonder ... Modern popularity, which will likely fill the streets and inns here for centuries to come, dates to the 1740s and is largely attributed to David Garrick, who ran Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London (a town that also claims Shakespeare as its own and which will have dozens of institutions celebrating this year) ... trips ... IF YOU GO ... What to do....

Short film on Thevar freedom fighters released

Edit The Hindu 18 Apr 2016
One of the freedom fighters, Puli Thevar, is considered the first south Indian to rebel against the British rule ... “At a time when women were oppressed, Rani Velu Nachiyar valiantly fought in the 1740s, opposing the taxes levied by the British.” ... Keywords....

Documentary offers a glimpse of Thevar freedom fighters

Edit The Hindu 17 Apr 2016
Varadarajan, founder president of Marathiya Manila Thevar Munnetra Peravai, said, “At a time when women were oppressed, Rani Velu Nachiyar valiantly fought in the 1740s, opposing the taxes levied by the British.” The Marudhu Pandiyar brothers — Periya Marudhu and Chinna Marudhu — who were hanged due to their ......

Facing the music: James Gilchrist

Edit The Guardian 11 Apr 2016
WNO’s Handel, David Watkin’s Bach, Scotland’s folk musicians and India’s traditional instruments – tenor James Gilchrist on the music that inspires him. What’s your musical guilty pleasure?. How can you be guilty about music? There just isn’t anything in music to be ashamed of. What was the first ever record or CD you bought? ... Facebook. Twitter ... How far back can I go? If it’s not cheating, I’d love to say Handel in London in the 1740s ... ....

'Outlander', 'Fear the Walking Dead' and 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' top this week's TV must-sees

Edit Toronto Sun 10 Apr 2016
Bill Harris' TV must-sees for the week of April 10. 1. Outlander. Season-2 debut. The “droughtlander” is over for the passionate fans of this epic series. Airing in Canada one day after its debut on Starz in the U.S., the second season sees Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) infiltrating political circles in France in the 1740s as they try to change history ... Busy. When. Sunday, April 10 on Showcase. 2 ... When ... 3 ... When ... 4....
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