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Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Monday, September 15, 2025

Book Spotlight: The Price of Loyalty by Malve von Hassell

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  In a time of kingdoms and crusades, one man's heart is the battlefield. Cerdic, a Saxon knight, serves Count Stephen-Henry of Blois wi...
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Monday, January 10, 2022

Spotlight on Kerry Chaput, author of Daughter of the King (Defying the Crown, Book 1)

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  La Rochelle France, 1661. Fierce Protestant Isabelle is desperate to escape persecution by the Catholic King. Isabelle is tortured and har...
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Friday, May 4, 2018

5 Bayeux Tapestry facts: what is it, why was it made and what story does it tell?

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History Extra The French president Emmanuel Macron recently announced that the Bayeux Tapestry is to go on display in the UK. But what ...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Medieval Treasure Unearthed at the Abbey of Cluny

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Ancient Origins In mid-September, a large treasure was unearthed during a dig at the Abbey of Cluny, in the French department of Saône...
Sunday, September 3, 2017

How the Longbow Revolutionised Warfare in the Middle Ages

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Made from History A medieval illustration of longbowmen in battle from Froissart’s Chronicle.  BY TOM CROPPER  The English Longbo...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Little Pompeii’ Unearthed in France is Most Exceptional Roman Site Found in Half a Century

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Ancient Origins In an extensive excavation of a complete Roman neighborhood found near the outskirts of the city of Vienne in the sout...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Sam’s historical recipe corner: Chicken Marengo

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History Extra In every issue of BBC History Magazine, picture editor Sam Nott brings you a recipe from the past. In this article, Sam ...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Race to Recover Elaborate Ancient Roman Mosaics Unearthed in France

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Ancient Origins A team of archaeologists has recently discovered the ruins of an opulent 5th-century Roman palace in Auch, a commune i...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Celtic Prince or Princess? Researchers Have Finally Ascertained Who Owned an Opulent 2500-Year-Old Tomb in France

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Ancient Origins First unearthed in 2015, research on the stunning artifacts found in a rich tomb in Lavau, France are finally coming to...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Britons were eating frogs' legs 8,000 years before the French

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History Extra They’ve long been considered a French delicacy, but a new archeological dig in Wiltshire suggests frogs' legs may hav...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Q&A: How did the Normans learn to build castles?

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History Extra The Great Tower at Chepstow Castle, one of the earliest Norman stone structures in the British Isles. (© Tosca Weijers/Dr...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Occupation, resistance, subjugation: the bloody aftermath of 1066

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History Extra The Harrying of the North. Gouache on paper, by Patrick Nicolle (1907–95). Private collection. (© Look and Learn/Bridg...