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Man Booker Prize 2014 shortlist announced (MAN Group plc)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2015
(Source. MAN Group plc). For immediate release, Tuesday 9 September. 2014 Man Booker Prize. shortlist announced.  The first year that the prize is open to all authors writing in English, regardless of nationality.  Howard Jacobson in the running to be the first British man to win twice ... The judges praised the 'depth and range' of the list, which includes writers from. Britain, the United States and Australia ... Windus) ... The shortlist ... 1460s....

History in One Painting

Edit Huffington Post 08 Sep 2015
Gdansk, Poland is a city that many know as the place where shipyard worker Lech Walesa led the strikes and established the Solidarity Union that led to the end of Soviet control of the region. I was looking forward to seeing how it had changed since my last visit in 1996 ... This altarpiece was commissioned and paid for by the wealthy de' Medici family of Florence in the 1460s but it never made it to Florence ... ....

Elvis Festival celebrates 14th year in Bad Nauheim, Germany

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 03 Jul 2015
www.bad-nauheim.com ... Portuguese settled the then-uninhabited volcanic islands in the 1460s; the first capital, on the island of Santiago, is now called Cidade Velha (“Old City”) and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (pictured) ... ....

"Birther" Controversies and the Wars of the Roses

Edit About.com 02 Jul 2015
The time from the 1460s through the 1480s saw much contention and turnover for the title of King of England ... ....

How do you roast an egg?

Edit The Daily Telegraph 28 Mar 2015
Looking for a very novel Easter egg? Try this old Elizabethan recipe - but beware explosions!. Writer Laura Freeman spit roasts eggs on her barbecue in Oxfordshire Photo. John Lawrence/The Telegraph. By Laura Freeman ... Comments ... In his essay, Walddon explains that the method for spit-roasting eggs comes from a cookery manuscript written by the Italian chef Martino de Rossi in the 1460s and translated into English in 1598 ... Lambswool ... 1 ... ....

Shami Chakrabarti reveals Baileys women’s prize for fiction longlist

Edit The Guardian 10 Mar 2015
Shami Chakrabarti is chair of the judges for this year’s Baileys women’s prize for fiction ... American veteran Tyler is longlisted for her 20th novel, the story of three generations of a family A Spool of Blue Thread, alongside Smith’s dual narrative How to Be Both, which twines together the stories of a renaissance artist of the 1460s and a modern teenager, and which has already won the Goldsmiths prize and the Costa novel award ... ....

York power work reveals medieval burials

Edit BBC News 27 Feb 2015
A group of 12 skeletons, uncovered during power work in York, have been dated back to the War of the Roses. The first bones were found as Northern Powergrid replaced underground cables in the Knavesmire area in November 2013. York Archaeological Trust said radiocarbon dating of two of them suggested they had died in the 1460s ... 'Fascinating find' ... Experts said some of the remains had evidence of bone fractures ... ....

Ali Smith novel How to be Both up for £40,000 Folio Prize

Edit BBC News 09 Feb 2015
Ali Smith's How to be Both, winner of the Costa novel award and Goldsmiths Prize for original fiction, has been shortlisted for another honour. The novel, which tells of a teenage girl in the present day and an Italian artist in the 1460s, is one of eight titles up for the 2015 Folio Prize. Works by Ireland's Colm Toibin, US writer Ben Lerner and Kenya's Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor also make the shortlist ... Analysis ... ....

Conference to advance research on the Marches of Wales (University of Chester)

Edit noodls 29 Jan 2015
The Making of the March, by Professor David StephensonofBangor University; Welsh and English Place-Names and the March, by Richard Morgan of Bangor University; Projection of Power in North Wales and the March in the 1460s, by Dr Adam Chapman, of the Institute of Historical Research; Parks, Gardens and Designed Landscapes of North East Wales and North West Shropshire, by Spencer Gavin Smith of Manchester Metropolitan University....

Meet the Author: Ali Smith

Edit BBC News 23 Jan 2015
23 January 2015 Last updated at 10.01 GMT. The Costa Book of the Year Award, worth £30,000 to the winning author, will be presented next week ... Ali Smith, whose book 'How to be both' borrows from the techniques of fresco painting - focuses on the lives of a grieving teenage girl in the present day and a renaissance artist in the 1460s ... ....

English teacher Jonathan Edwards wins Costa poetry prize

Edit BBC News 05 Jan 2015
An English teacher from south Wales has won the Costa poetry prize for his first book ... Ali Smith, who was made a CBE in the New Year's Honours, also received the Costa novel award for How To Be Both ... Focusing on the lives of a grieving teenage girl in the present day and a renaissance artist in the 1460s, it was published in two versions, both with the same cover but with the main halves switched ... "So I try to broaden it out ... ....

Wednesday's Show

Edit National Public Radio 24 Dec 2014
Wednesday's Show. Full Show Audio Pending Share. Loading… Audio pending est. 9.00 a.m. ET share Share Facebook Twitter Google+ Email. 1 Europe. Lower Oil Prices Drain Value Of Russians' Money. by Corey Flintoff. 2 Economy. Lower Gas Prices Add Fuel To U.S. Economic Recovery. by Chris Arnold. 3 ... Around the Nation ... 4. Curator Timothy Verdon says "Mary is unexpectedly fashionable," in Fra Filippo Lippi's Madonna and Child, painted in the 1460s....

New storage site for Newport's medieval ship

Edit BBC News 08 Dec 2014
Newport's medieval ship is being moved from its current home to a new warehouse after securing funding for another three years. The Friends of the Newport Ship have until the New Year to move the 15th century vessel's remains ... It dates back to the reign of Edward IV in the 1460s ... ....
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