Organisation to mark 500 years since uprising against Cardinal Wolsey’s closure of Bayham Abbey They included a brewer, a tailor and a shoemaker – a hardy bunch of craftspeople prepared to stand up to the might of the Tudor regime to try to save their local monastery. Exactly five centuries on, English Heritage is appealing for people who think they may be descendants of those who took part in the uprising against Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s closure of Bayham Abbey to come forward. Continue reading...

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Wind and solar have overtaken thermal plants (coal, gas, oil, and bioenergy) in terms of generating capacity.

Alors que Marine Le Pen vient d’être condamnée pour détournement de fonds publics à quatre ans de prison et à cinq ans d’inéligibilité, l’empêchant de se présenter en 2027, la même Marine Le Pen défen...

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This session looks at the beginnings of modern European social theory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The English political philosophers, Thomas...