BUSHELL ON THE BOX: Britain's Greatest Monarch.(Features)
Byline: Garry Bushell MOST royals on Britain's Greatest Monarch were English rather than British. So why ignore Alfred the Great, who gave England unity and literacy? And where was William III? The last king to lead his troops into battle, he defeated...
June 19, 2005; The People (London, England)
THE 12 GREATEST BRITONS ; (AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF OUR NATION'S HISTORY) ++ The Tories have drawn up a list of 12 people who made Britain great and deserve to be studied in schools. Mark Steel begs to differ with their choice, and offers his own definitive dozen
...list of top people. Because everything...of British people who've created...replacing Alfred the Great with Lily Allen...a handful of monarchs, generals or...millions of people that the working...now suggests Britain is created just...suggestions for the people they could ...
December 27, 2006; The Independent - London
A History of the Swedish People, vol. 1, From Prehistory to the Renaissance. (reprint, 1970).(GREAT BRITAIN, EUROPE, BALKANS, FORMER USSR)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
...0-8166-4656-2 A history of the Swedish people; v.1: From prehistory to the Renaissance...the ship, and promptly died. The Swedish people so close by, who had already survived...a third. Moberg describes how Sweden's people weathered it all to come to be ruled by...
August 1, 2005; Reference & Research Book News
VIRGINIA'S SOVEREIGNS: WARTS AND ALL BRITAIN'S COLONIAL MONARCHS RUN THE GAMUT FROM LECHEROUS TO LOONY.(OUR MILLENNIUM)
...really know their monarchs well. The sort of people who came over here...portrait painters being great flatterers, if they...Stuarts, who ruled Britain from 1603 to 1714...remembered today as monarchs who either could...became embroiled in a great Civil War, and in...channel and ...
February 28, 1999; The Virginian Pilot
Elizabeth I reigns as Britain's favourite monarch
...present Queen's 27 per cent. Alfred the Great came third with 26 per cent, it was announced...name as her more popular predecessor. "People like the familiar. It probably helps...death in 1603. She was famous for her great speeches and made herself a powerful...slightly scary and forbidding," he said. ...
December 31, 2001; Evening Standard - London
Elizabeth I reigns as Britain's favourite monarch.
...present Queen's 27 per cent. Alfred the Great came third with 26 per cent, it was announced...name as her more popular predecessor. People like the familiar. It probably helps...death in 1603. She was famous for her great speeches and made herself a powerful...slightly scary and forbidding, he said. ...
December 31, 2001; The Evening Standard (London, England)
Books: An exciting monarch is always a help The Spirit of Britain: A Narrative History of the Arts by Roy Strong Hutchinson pounds 40
...heels of his history book The Story of Britain. Like that one, this one doesn't have...indeed you could sum up The Spirit of Britain by saying Strong picks out great moments, and some objects and artefacts...moments, matches them together with great men, and then gets it all on the page...He takes ...
September 12, 1999; The Independent - London
A leader among the world's leaders: GLOBE-TROTTING MONARCH WHO BECAME THE PUBLIC FACE OF BRITAIN ABROAD; Queen Elizabeth II: 50 Golden Years - 1952-2002.(Supplement)
...one of the most-travelled people in the world. During her...that Elizabeth first left Britain's shores when she visited...China, let alone walked the Great Wall. In a show of respect...at a banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People. Returning to South Africa...including six million in ...
February 9, 2002; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Jewel in the Crown; On PBS, a View of Britain's Model Monarch
...business - it's no accident they're known as "the Firm." "Most people have a job and then they go home," she explains. "In this, the...today from where you are." The documentary also captured the Great Decaf Crisis for posterity. At a reception the queen hosted...
November 16, 1992; The Washington Post
King-sized tale of Georgian madness; Michael Pennington talks to Terry Grimley about playing Britain's mysteriously-afflicted monarch.(Features)
...week A View from the Bridge travels to Leeds. 'I think it's a great system, and like so many good ideas it's very simple,' says...It's a theatre play rather than a film,' says Pennington. 'Most people will say 'I saw the film', especially as it was shown on television...
October 21, 2003; The Birmingham Post (England)
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