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Tudormania: Why can’t we get over it?

Edit The Guardian 04 May 2016
Our fixation with the sexy powerplays of the Tudor court shows no signs of fading ... by Charlotte Higgins ... Twitter ... Twitter ... Twitter ... It’s the rose-tinted version of history that says, ‘That was when we were powerful.’ And we weren’t! What nobody wants to write about is that the whole period after Henry VIII’s break with Rome in the 1530s is the time when England was completely isolated, a pariah state within the rest of Catholic Europe ... ....

Haut Bailly's Wilmers Says `Sun's Come Out' for Bordeaux 2015

Edit Bloomberg 01 May 2016
The quality of the 2015 vintage being presented to merchants over the past month makes it feel like the “the sun’s come out” for the Bordeaux region, according to Robert Wilmers, M&T Bank Corp ... “It’s a pleasure for the psyche,” the U.S ... Vines were grown at Haut Bailly as long ago as 1461, according to the estate’s website, with the foundations of the modern vineyard dating from the 1530s ... Photo. Guy Collins/Bloomberg ... ....

Spanish priest, 90, gets Indian citizenship after 38 years of struggle

Edit The Times of India 23 Apr 2016
Mumbai, April 23 (IANS) After a long struggle of 38 years, a 90-year-old Spanish Jesuit priest -- who has lived and worked in the country for 67 years -- was finally granted Indian citizenship here this week ... An ecstatic Fr ... Sopena was 22 years old when he arrived in India in 1947 to serve humanity and the poor through the Society of Jesus, founded in the mid-1530s by Spanish counter-reformist St ... Undeterred Fr ... that's all," Fr ... Fr....

The story of England’s ‘Rough Wooing’ of Scotland

Edit Scotsman 07 Apr 2016
In the spring of 1551, Scots breathed a sigh of relief as a brutal military conflict with England was formally ended by a treaty signed at Norham Castle in Northumberland. For several years, large parts of Scotland had been occupied by English forces ... The trail of destruction was considerable ... Picture. Andrew O'Brien ... But relations soured as the 1530s wore on, with the two monarchs increasingly at loggerheads over religion ... READ MORE....

George Osborne just announced the biggest appropriation of Church land since the Reformation

Edit New Statesman 17 Mar 2016
Hey, it worked once!. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img="">. Between 1536 and 1541, the government of Henry VIII systematically disbanded more than 600 monasteries, priories, convents and friaries. It sold off their assets. It appropriated their incomes ... Unimaginable. Anyway ... George Osborne just announced the biggest appropriation of Church land since the 1530s ... Getty. ....

Flagship Products of Peru

Edit About.com 01 Feb 2016
COPROBA (the “National Committee on Flagship Products”) was tasked with promoting the quality and sale of certain products made in Peru, flagship exports known as the productos bandera del Perú. According to INDECOPI. ... Alpaca ... Bred in relative isolation for four centuries, the Peruvian Paso developed with little crossbreeding from outside the original Spanish stock, which first arrived in Peru with Francisco Pizarro in the 1530s ... Quinoa....

10 Things You Might Not Know About Shakespeare

Edit Huffington Post 14 Jan 2016
Chances are you could name most -- if not all -- of his plays. You'll doubtless be able to name a fair few of his most famous characters. And perhaps you're even able to recite some of his most famous lines ... 1. His father was a professional beer taster. John Shakespeare was born in Snitterfield in Warwickshire, England, in the early 1530s and moved to William's eventual birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon, in 1551 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... A LOT ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10 ... ....

‘Lost’ £30m masterpiece now at risk of leaving UK (Arts Council England)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Jan 2016
(Source. Arts Council England). Export bar placed on Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap ... It is one of only 15 portraits by the old master to survive - the majority of which reside in Italy ... Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said ... The painting by Pontormo, whose real name was Jacopo Carrucci, reflects a stylistic change in Florentine painting during the 1530s by showing the man from a low viewpoint and in a twisted pose ... Tel ... (noodl. 31529238) ....

‘Lost’ £30m masterpiece now at risk of leaving UK (UK Department for Culture, Media and ...

Edit Public Technologies 23 Dec 2015
(Source. UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport). A classic portrait believed lost for more than 200 years is at risk of being exported from the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the asking price of £30,618,987 ... The painting by Pontormo, whose real name was Jacopo Carrucci, reflects a stylistic change in Florentine painting during the 1530s by showing the man from a low viewpoint and in a twisted pose ... (noodl. 31439262) ....

Constable's The Lock & Museum-quality Works to lead Sotheby's London Old Masters sale on 9 ...

Edit Public Technologies 30 Nov 2015
(Source. Sotheby's Inc) f1d2bbf5-a086-472a-a133-5723b2804c7f.pdf. Press Release. For Immediate Release. London . +44 (0) 207 293 6000 . Mitzi Mina . mitzi.Mina@sothebys.com . Marie-Béatrice Morin . Marie-Béatrice Morin @sothebys.com. New York . Melanie Brister . melanie.brister@sothebys.com ... M ... It is just one of only two depictions of the Madonna and Child painted by Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse, in the 1520s and 1530s remaining in private hands....

What this year’s winners tell us about the Man Booker and Nobel prizes

Edit The Guardian 16 Oct 2015
After Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies (set in the 1530s), Catton’s The Luminaries (1860s) and Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (1940s), A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fourth consecutive historical novel to win, and shares with Mantel’s Tudor novels the technique (which Philip Pullman and Philip Hensher have criticised) of using the present tense to narrate past events ... Yet there’s a surprising amount of kinship ... ....

Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Arrives in Lambton County (County of Lambton)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Oct 2015
(Source. County of Lambton) ... Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery opens to the public at 4 p.m. this Friday, October 2 and will be on display until February 7, 2016. The exhibition was initiated to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 2009 and features masterpieces from Canadian, American, and European artists spanning 400 years, from the 1530s to the 1950s ... -30-. Please contact.. Bev MacDougall. Warden....

the Eurozone Takes over - Stronger Integration.

Edit Huffington Post 29 Sep 2015
The European Union (EU) and its 28 members face fundamental changes over the coming 5-10 years. - Britain will vote in 2016 or 2017 on new terms. If the result is to leave a revision of the structure -- institutionally and functionally -- becomes inevitable ... - Demography (aging) emerges as one of the dominant issues ... Conclusion. ... Values ... Britain broke with Catholicism in the 1530s when King Henry VIII instituted the Church of England ... ....
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