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Giving to charity Bring back the Victorians Feb 15th 2007 From The Economist print edition Britons are generous (and so they should be, considering that they are the third-richest people in the world after the Americans and Japanese). But given the amount of wealth created over the past 15...

England's Irish history lesson By Brendan Gallagher 17/02/2007 The Six Nations Championship rugby game between Ireland and England on 24th February is to be played at the 82,000-seater Croke Park in Dublin. In 1920, when Ireland wanted to leave the Union, British soldiers killed 14...

Maximus and Co DID fight to the death in Britain 17th February 2007 Russell Crowe in 2000 movie "Gladiator" The Romans may be considered a civilising influence on our land. But their invasion had darker consequences too – staining British history with the blood of gladiators...

Ancient scientific tool for sale The device has two sight vanes on one edge. The back has calendar information and an eagle, which would have been used to tell the time of day by the sun. It was made in England around the year 1388. -------------------------------- A 14th Century...

FRENCH CANDIDATE SAYS SHE WOULD SCRAP NEW AIRCRAFT-CARRIER Friday, 16 February 2007 The Royal Navy's new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers (pictured) will be the largest warships in Western Europe and will be only slightly smaller than America's Nimitz Class. The Royal Navy is to...

As business leaders in France are warning of an exodus of the country's top-flight taxpayers to London and other foreign capitals if Ségolène Royal is elected president in May....... Pop star prefers the 'British way of life' By Henry Samuel in Paris 16/02/2007 The French, still...

Postcard delivered 90 years too late By Nick Britten 16/02/2007 Daughter shocked to receive the postcard Private Walter Butler sent to his sweetheart from the trenches in the First World War. When Private Walter Butler posted a card to his sweetheart in 1917 from the trenches in...

Hot Fuzz is a British comedy movie that was released in Britain on 16th February (US, 13th April) co-written by and starring the guy who gave us Shaun of the Dead (Simon Pegg) - a zomby comedy horror - in 2004. Pegg's 2004 movie Shaun of the Dead jokingly poked fun at Hollywood horror movies...

Biscuits among cargo washed ashore from stricken ship 16th February 2007 Biscuits, chocolates and potatoes are the latest items to wash up on a beach near a grounded cargo ship. They were among seven more containers from the damaged 62,000-tonne Napoli which is stranded off the south...

The War of Jenkins' Ear 1739 - 1741 All wars have names, and England has taken part in many. The Wars of the Roses, The War of Spanish Succession, The Boer War and of course World War I and World War II, but the War of Jenkins' Ear, now that is an odd sounding war! The first question...

Ministers 'not fit to polish boots' of cleared Iraq war hero 15th February 2007 Cleared: Colonel Jorge Mendonca MBE A war hero officer has walked free from court amid a furious backlash over his "politically motivated" £20million show trial. Colonel Jorge Mendonca, the most senior...

In 2006, Titus Oates was selected by the BBC History Magazine as the 17th century's worst Briton. He ranked the third-equal worst Briton over the last 1000 years (after Jack the Ripper and Thomas Becket). Titus Oates (September 15, 1649 – July 12/13, 1705) was a 17th century perjurer who...

Coins, discovered in a Newcastle bank volt and dating from 32BC, show that Cleopatra and Marc Antony weren't quite as beautiful as some people - especially Hollywood - made them out to be..... Cleopatra, the (not so) beautiful seductress By PAUL SIMS 13th February 2007 Money talks...

Field of the Cloth of Gold King Henry VIII of England King Francis I of France The Field of the Cloth of Gold , or in French Le Camp de Drap d'Or, is the name given to a place in Balinghem, between Guînes and Ardres, in France, near Calais. The solecism Field of the Cloth of Gold has...

The South Sea Bubble All through history, one subject appears again and again. How to make a lot of money quickly! The first recorded case in England was that of a State Lottery in 1569. The tickets were on sale at the west door of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. The name of the winner...

Poor Fred! English history records several members of its Royal family dying in peculiar circumstances. For example …King Henry I died from eating a 'surfeit of lampreys' in 1135, and another, William Rufus, was shot with an arrow whilst hunting in the New Forest. Poor Edmund Ironside...

London vs. The Big Apple Globalization comes to the financial services industry. by Irwin M. Stelzer 02/13/2007 London currently has the upper hand over New York THE COMPETITION between New York City and London threatens to get out of hand. New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, a...

Brit girls' boobs are the biggest February 13, 2007 In front ... shapely Brit Kelly Brook BRITISH women have the biggest breasts in Europe, a survey revealed yesterday. The poll for bra maker Triumph found that only in this country did more than half the women need a D cup or larger...

Sir Patrick gets stamps of approval 13/02/2007 A set of six stamps chosen by Sir Patrick Moore, 83, will go on sale today to celebrate 50 years of his astronomy programme The Sky At Night. The BBC show is the longest-running programme in the world still boasting its original presenter...

England cricketers caught up in robbery By Our Foreign Staff 13/02/2007 England's three-month tour of Australia ended with a frightening conclusion when their physiotherapist was robbed at knife-point by a gang in the team hotel in Sydney. Five members of the squad, including batsman...