Dan Jones in The Plantagenets from Acorn Media Rlj Entertainment
By Kieran Kinsella
Heraldic dramas like Game of Thrones and The White Queen serve to whet your appetite but nothing beats a healthy dose of historical skullduggery. Athena deliver just that with the DVD release of Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets.
Long before the house of Windsor burst onto the scene, the Plantagenets sat on the throne of England. French speaking descendants of William the Conqueror, their dynasty lasted for just over three hundred years and spawned some of histories grizzliest scandals. Do you remember Ts Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral when the Archishop of Canterbury was killed by the King’s knights? The King in question was Henry II — a Plantagenet. How about Bad King John of Robin Hood fame? He was a Plantagenet too as was Richard III who achieved notoriety for killing off the young princes in the tower.
By Kieran Kinsella
Heraldic dramas like Game of Thrones and The White Queen serve to whet your appetite but nothing beats a healthy dose of historical skullduggery. Athena deliver just that with the DVD release of Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets.
Long before the house of Windsor burst onto the scene, the Plantagenets sat on the throne of England. French speaking descendants of William the Conqueror, their dynasty lasted for just over three hundred years and spawned some of histories grizzliest scandals. Do you remember Ts Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral when the Archishop of Canterbury was killed by the King’s knights? The King in question was Henry II — a Plantagenet. How about Bad King John of Robin Hood fame? He was a Plantagenet too as was Richard III who achieved notoriety for killing off the young princes in the tower.
- 5/19/2015
- by Edited by K Kinsella
Silent Witness outperformed Broadchurch in the ratings for a second week running, according to overnight figures for Monday (January 26).
The BBC crime drama appealed to 5.53m (22.5%) at 9pm to be the highest-rated show of the evening outside of the soaps.
Earlier, Inside Out was watched by 3.92m (17.9%) at 7.30pm, before Panorama documentary Rescued from a Forced Marriage interested 3.11m (13.2%) at 8.30pm.
On BBC Two, University Challenge gathered 2.97m (12.8%) at 8pm, while Only Connect quizzed 2.4m (10.2%) at 8.30pm. David Starkey's Magna Carta transfixed 1.5m (6.1%) at 9pm, before Jack Whitehall's Backchat amused 830k (4.6%) at 10pm.
ITV's Broadchurch rose marginally from last week's series low to 5.17m (21%) at 9pm (414k/2.6% on +1). Earlier in the evening, Richard Wilson's On the Road interested 2.9m (12.5%) at 8.30pm (85k/0.3%).
On Channel 4, Dispatches drew in 1.1m (4.7%) at 8pm (138k/0.6%), followed by Food Unwrapped with 1.51m (6.4%) at 8.30pm (141k/0.6%). The Undateables attracted 1.82m (7.4%) at 9pm...
The BBC crime drama appealed to 5.53m (22.5%) at 9pm to be the highest-rated show of the evening outside of the soaps.
Earlier, Inside Out was watched by 3.92m (17.9%) at 7.30pm, before Panorama documentary Rescued from a Forced Marriage interested 3.11m (13.2%) at 8.30pm.
On BBC Two, University Challenge gathered 2.97m (12.8%) at 8pm, while Only Connect quizzed 2.4m (10.2%) at 8.30pm. David Starkey's Magna Carta transfixed 1.5m (6.1%) at 9pm, before Jack Whitehall's Backchat amused 830k (4.6%) at 10pm.
ITV's Broadchurch rose marginally from last week's series low to 5.17m (21%) at 9pm (414k/2.6% on +1). Earlier in the evening, Richard Wilson's On the Road interested 2.9m (12.5%) at 8.30pm (85k/0.3%).
On Channel 4, Dispatches drew in 1.1m (4.7%) at 8pm (138k/0.6%), followed by Food Unwrapped with 1.51m (6.4%) at 8.30pm (141k/0.6%). The Undateables attracted 1.82m (7.4%) at 9pm...
- 1/27/2015
- Digital Spy
In the original Star Trek series, it took mere seconds for Scotty to beam Captain Kirk back aboard the Enterprise. But a new paper by physics students at the University of Leicester in England shows that if human teleportation were possible in real life, beaming someone from point A to point B would take, um, a bit longer.
As in hundreds of thousands times longer than the universe has been in existence.
Our universe has been around for 13.8 billion years. But the seriously tongue-in-cheek paper shows that at a beaming speed of 30 gigahertz, transmitting all the data within a single human would take 4,850,000,000,000,000 (4.85 quadrillion) years. The human dataset includes not only the person's genetic code but also all the memories and knowledge stored in his/her brain. While DNA would take up about 10 billion bits, the brain's information would bring the data total up to 2.6 x 1042 (26 followed by 41 zeroes) in bits.
As in hundreds of thousands times longer than the universe has been in existence.
Our universe has been around for 13.8 billion years. But the seriously tongue-in-cheek paper shows that at a beaming speed of 30 gigahertz, transmitting all the data within a single human would take 4,850,000,000,000,000 (4.85 quadrillion) years. The human dataset includes not only the person's genetic code but also all the memories and knowledge stored in his/her brain. While DNA would take up about 10 billion bits, the brain's information would bring the data total up to 2.6 x 1042 (26 followed by 41 zeroes) in bits.
- 8/1/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Title: An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin Author: Rohan Kriwaczek Length: 209 Pages Publisher: Duckworth Overlook Publication Date: 2006 Micro-histories are growing in esteem in both scholarly and popular reading circles. With authors like David Starkey and Erik Larson making historic events, eras and figures accessible to a more expansive audience, the genre is growing and new generations are becoming acquainted with an ever…...
- 2/22/2012
- Horrorbid
This year's UK riots made gritty dramas such as Kidulthood and Shank look all too real. But could these films be part of the problem, asks Live magazine's Zindzi Rocque-Drayton
It looked a little like a movie. Cars on fire. Groups of youths in hoodies, their faces covered, running from corner to corner. Shop windows being smashed, and people climbing inside to fetch trainers or TVs or designer cloths. Was it Shank? Kidulthood? Who's starring in this one?
What unfolded on the nation's TV screens between 6 and 10 August wasn't a Sky Movies season of British urban cinema, of course, but the English riots, leaving five people dead and causing an estimated £200m worth of damage to property. And even as they unfolded, there were voices linking the violence to popular culture. On Newsnight, for example, the historian David Starkey huffed and puffed: "What has happened is that the substantial section...
It looked a little like a movie. Cars on fire. Groups of youths in hoodies, their faces covered, running from corner to corner. Shop windows being smashed, and people climbing inside to fetch trainers or TVs or designer cloths. Was it Shank? Kidulthood? Who's starring in this one?
What unfolded on the nation's TV screens between 6 and 10 August wasn't a Sky Movies season of British urban cinema, of course, but the English riots, leaving five people dead and causing an estimated £200m worth of damage to property. And even as they unfolded, there were voices linking the violence to popular culture. On Newsnight, for example, the historian David Starkey huffed and puffed: "What has happened is that the substantial section...
- 12/16/2011
- by Zindzi Rocque-Drayton
- The Guardian - Film News
As if the London riots haven’t caused enough pain, Tudor historian David Starkey has to come on the BBC and push the knife deeper in the wound! Starkey was a guest on the BBC’s newscast “Newsnight” recently along with authors Owen Jones and Dedra Say Mitchell to talk about the London riots. Starkey said on the program that the riots were due to “whites [becoming] blacks.” “What has happened is that the substantial section of chavs that you [Owen Jones] wrote about have become black. The whites have become black,” he said. “A particular sort of violent, destrictive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion. Black and white, boy and...
- 8/19/2011
- by monique
- ShockYa
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
A prominent historian has claimed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not invited to Friday's royal wedding because Prince William dislikes the politician and not of political things."I think the plain truth is that for all sorts of reasons, (Prince) William developed a powerful dislike of Mr Blair," David Starkey told Sky News during a debate on the monarchy."Particularly the way in which he intervened at his mother's funeral service. These are not political at all, they are personal choices," he said.Neither Blair nor his Labour successor Gordon Brown was invited to the wedding.However, former Conservative premiers Sir ...
- 4/29/2011
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
In Confidence delves beneath the surface of some of the most creative spirits of the decade in probing interviews by critically acclaimed presenter Laurie Taylor. Tonight it’s the turn of pop princess Lily Allen. Damien Hirst, Lily Allen, Richard Dawkins and David Starkey take Sky Arts 1 into their confidence, along with other colourful and controversial celebrities in intimate high definition interviews.
- 6/7/2010
- Sky TV
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