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GLADSTONE'S CABINET OVERRULED THE PRIME MINISTER'S FIRST ATTEMPT TO MAKE HENRY IRVING A KNIGHT BIOGRAPHY A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd CHATTO & WINDUS, pounds 25, 620 pp Jonathan Bate on two glamorous 19th-century actors who transformed the theatrical profession
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It must have been in about 1920 that my grandmother was pushing
my aunt's pram down Tenterden High Street. They bumped into the
elderly Ellen Terry, who leaned over the pram and said, 'What sweet
little red cheeks, they're just like rose buds.' My aunt thus became
known as Bud for the rest of her days.
My grandparents were extremely respectable middle-class folk, the
sort of people who in prior generations would have regarded actors
as glorified vagabonds, actresses as little better than whores.
But Ellen Terry they adored. Soon she was to become a dame and
when she died in 1928 there was ...
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Translation and adaptation in Tennyson's Battle of Brunanburh.
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly
; ...century Anglo-Saxon Battle of Brunanburh is in general an interesting...with great slaughter at Brunanburh in the year 937...detailed analysis of Brunanburh to date, calls "Mangled...emphasize the horrors of battle. The phrase, in his...
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A hawk from a handsaw: a note on the beasts of "The Battle of Brunanburh".(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...Anglo-Saxon Chronicle called The Battle of Brunanburh, which celebrates the victory...woods. This is the beasts of battle typescene; in the aftermath of...Campbell, Alistair. The Battle of Brunanburh. London: Heinemann, 1938...
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Brunanburh reconsidered: Kevin Halloran puts forward a new suggestion for the location of one of the most disputed questions of Anglo-Saxon history: the site of Athelstan's great battle against Alba, Strathclyde and the Vikings.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...ONE Or THE MOST DECISIVE battles in British history was fought...monarchy. But where did the battle take place? In the absence...long-lost battlefield of Brunanburh have received much attention...may be misplaced. The name Brunanburh is one of several given in...suggested an Old English form ...
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Where was Brunanburh?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...by no means the first suggestion that Brunanburh was fought at Burnawick Hill north of...Halloran are wrong as to the site of the battle. This was an invasion of England and...most likely, it is probable that the battle was fought at a river crossing at the...
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 "Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)")
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Chronicle of Scots battles up for grabs.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
; ...Many, if not most, of these battles took place in and around Northumberland...Scotland. As well as the famous battles of Bannockburn, Flodden and...encounters such as Nechtansmere, Brunanburh, Neville's Cross and Newburn...archive . The Great British Battles - England Versus Scotland by...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Rocky key to hill puzzle; answers to correspondents.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...QUESTION I read that the Battle of Brunanburhwas one of the most important battles in Britain in the Middle Ages...The opposing forces met at Brunanburh - probably in the Wirral...moment of English history. The battle was immortalised in an Old English poem, The Battle Of Brunanburh, ...
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Olafr's raven coin: old norse myth in circulation?(Olafr Gothfrithsson)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association
; ...raven. This 'bird of battle' is an aggressive symbol...the Humber, where, at Brunanburh, they finally encountered...their swords in battle at Brunanburh' (5) as the West Saxon poem The Battle of Brunanburh was to put it, with its...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Britain's destiny decided on Wirral battleground; Victors changed British Isles' structure forever.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...biggest and bloodiest ever battle was staged on Merseyside...reveal tonight. The Battle of Brunanburh actually took place...of the most important battles of British history...was called The Great Battle when it is first broadcast...South. They clashed at Brunanburh which most ...
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Letter: Birthplace of England.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...new arguments to prove that the battle of Brunanburh in AD937 in fact took place on...Brackenwood golf course in Wirral, Brunanburh perhaps being an old name for...Alfred the Great's son). This battle is often cited as the moment when...
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A History of Old English Meter.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...or 'correct', style of The Battle of Brunanburh (post-937), which, in turn...mere sixty years earlier than The Battle of Maldon (post-991), a poem...single non-parasited instances in Brunanburh and Maldon, in neither of which...
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