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The Friday Digest 19/06/15

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This week's update features the Magna Carta and Waterloo anniversaries, a history of the world in funny puns and how to knit your own Clanger.


One of only four surviving exemplifications of the 1215 text, Cotton MS. Augustus II. 106, property of the British Library - See more at: http://www.historytoday.com/ralph-v-turner/meaning-magna-carta-1215#sthash.cvNg74fl.dpuf


Magna Carta: the competing forces that cry out for a constitutional convention
 

* Is 15 June 1215 the correct date for Magna Carta?  
 

* Where does the term 'Magna Carta' come from
 

* Six Magna Carta myths explained
 

 

* Magna Carta 'changed the world', David Cameron tells anniversary event, but do you agree?


L: Magdalene Hall (1793–1822) in about 1808–10. A pen-and-ink sketch from an original miniature by JCD Engelheart. By kind permission of the present owner. R: Sir William Howe De Lancey in the full dress uniform of a colonel on the staff. Painted in 1813 or 1814. Artist and present whereabouts unknown.



* Lady De Lancey: the abridged story of Waterloo.


Pen sketch of the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, drawn by J Atkinson

 

* Wellington and the Battle of Waterloo


Waterloo Lives: In Their Own Words  In its bicentenary year, the Battle of Waterloo is waiting to be discovered through the National Army Museum's unique Napoleonic archive.

 

* Waterloo lives: in their own words ...

 

"Waterloo teeth"
 
 
* The dentures made from the teeth of dead soldiers at Waterloo


Dress worn at the Duchess of Richmond's Ball. Copyright Fashion Museum, Bath.


* Beautiful dresses worn at the Duchess of Richmond’s ball


Illustration by Eva Bee


* Napoleon’s dream died at Waterloo – and so did that of British democrats, do you agree?  
 
 

Woodcut of a woman stoking a furnace or baking bread, 1497. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)


* Medieval women: what was life like for a housewife in the Middle Ages


Map of Salem Village in 1692 by W.P. Upham, 1866. The tiny village of Salem, Massachusetts spawned one of the most notorious and mysterious miscarriages of justice in American history, the exact cause of which has eluded scholars and statesmen for centuries  Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3119165/How-Satan-went-viral-Map-reveals-Salem-witch-trials-spread-pinpoints-source-hysteria-local-reverend.html#ixzz3dUdLKiSv  Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook


* An interactive map of the Salem witch trials pinpoints the spread and the source of the hysteria


The Big Bang theory describes how the Universe began in a rapid expansion about 13.7 billion years ago

 

* A history of the world in funny puns ... 


Stan Winston, the Oscar-winning special effects designer, seen adding some finishing touches to a dinosaur

 

* The dinosaurs in the new Jurassic World film have divided the palaeontology world, but why? 

 

An Indian air force pilot from Punjab in England (c) Getty Images

 

Has India's contribution to the Second World War been ignored?  


Girls together: Shelia, far left, some of her fellow Wrens and her dog Vicar

 

* Love and War in the WRNS, a fresh view of the Second World War, as told through letters


One of the rooms where prisoners were tortured


* How two men survived a prison where 12,000 were killed.


Stephen Wiltshire's drawing of the 2014 exhibition of ceramic poppies at the Tower of London (c) Stephen Wiltshore

 

* Drawing what our mouths cannot say.


Fall, 2015 Photograph: Antonio Parente/John Keane/Flowers Gallery

 



Preacher with Bible, 1993 Photograph: Philip Wolmuth/The History Press




A birds eye view of tulip fields near Voorhout in the Netherlands, photographed with a drone in April 2015.   Photo and caption by Anders Andersson/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
 

* The stunning drone photos that will change how you see the world


Nine enchanting East Yorkshire fairytales from frog princes to wicked witches  Read more: http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/enchanting-folk-tales-East-Yorkshire/story-26681034-detail/story.html#ixzz3dUhCvivU  Follow us: @hulldailymail on Twitter | HullDailyMail on Facebook


* Nine enchanting East Yorkshire fairytales, from frog princes to wicked witches


World flags


Seventeen expressions from other countries that Britain needs to start using right away ...
 

* The lasting power of oral traditions.  

 

QueenThatcher


* The difficult relationship of Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher

 

 

* Bloomsbury’s Bill Swainson, Souvenir Press m.d. Ernest Hecht, Nature Publishing Group's Dr Philip Campbell and Paddington creator Michael Bond are among the book industry figures named in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours.   


Bookshop proposal for literature lovers



* The Falmouth Bookseller was at the heart of a romance story recently, when book-lover Jason Sandeman-Allen staged a surprise proposal to his girlfriend Stephanie Ashton in the indie bookshop


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Marble figure of Iris from the west pediment of the Parthenon. Greek (Athens), about 438–432 BC. H. 135 cm. British Museum 1816,0610.96




Agatha Christie sitting at her desk with books piled high. Poison was a favourite weapon in her books. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

 


Mairi Hedderwick’s uncompromising Katie Morag has all her adventures in a skirt, or at the very least a kilt. But not trousers! Illustration: Mairi Hedderwick




Knit your own Clanger
 
 

 
 
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cover of shadowshaper by daniel jose older 

 

An alternative summer reading list.

 

The Penance of Jane Shore by William Blake, c.1780.

 

* What inspired that excruciating 'walk of shame' scene in Game of Thrones


Whither his inner god? Grey retells Fifty Shades of Grey from Christian's perspective


* A live read-through of Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as told by Christian 


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