Howard Goodall

Howard Goodall's Story of Music - 2. The Age of Invention

Somewhere only we know - Keane

'Arcangelo Corelli'

'Antonio Vivaldi' - Summer - The Four Seasons

Henry Purcell - 'An evening hymn'

Andrew Marr's History of the World - Ep 7

George Stephenson - illiterate until 18?

'Canton'  (China) - trading for tea

Britain grew opium in India to sell to China?

'The Nemesis' - British warship - 'ironclad'

Tolstoy was against serfdom?

Totlstoy freed his serfs.

Oct 1859 - Totlstoy sets up a school to educate serfs?

1860 - Lincoln becomes President

11 Southern States broke away to form the Confederacy

April 12, 1861 - start of the Civil War

January 1, 1863 - Emacipation Proclamation 

April 9, 1865 - The South surrenders

Richmond, Virginia - Confederate Capital

'Sic Semper Tyrannis' - Thus always to tyrants.

1905 - Japan and Russia - war

'Henry Morton Stanley' - first Westerner to chart the Congo River

Leopold II - King of the Belgians

1917 - Germany's new Foriegn Secretary - Arthur Zimmermann - 'one of the most destructive individuals of the 20th century' - Marr

'Zimmermann telegram' - intercepted by Britain

This Sceptred Isle - 190/216

1832 (Whigs) , 1867 (Conservatives) , 1884 (Liberals) - Year of major Reform Acts

Disraeli - 'born Jewish but converted to Christianity'

Disraeli - 'consummate oppourtunist'

John Bright - Liberal MP

This Sceptred Isle - 188/216

1856 - The second Opium War  - The Arrow War

China v Britain and France

French missionary killed in China.

Chinese officials board the British ship 'The Arrow'.

Conflict lasts four years.

1839 - 1842 - The first Opium War, Hong Kong ceded to Britain

October 1856 - The Chinese board 'The Arrow'

French and British join forces to defeat the Chinese.

Victor Emanuel II - King of Piedmont

Garibaldi and his 'red shirts'

Palmerstone's Foreign Secretary - Lord John Russell

1860 - Garibaldi leads the 'red shirts'

Russell compares Garibaldi to King William III.

This Sceptred Isle - 187/216

Gladstone's ambitions as Chancellor are thwarted by the onset of the Crimean War.

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02535/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=1 - William Ewart Gladstone - Heinrich Müller

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02536/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=5   - William Ewart Gladstone -  George Frederic Watts

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02538/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=14 - Gladstone - Sir John Everett Millais

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02541/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&wPage=1&role=sit&rNo=39 - Alfred Edward Emslie

1854 - Crimean War

1833 - Slavery abolished throughout the Empire

1852 - Gladstone is Chancellor

Disraeli lived at No 11 Downing Street.

Disraeli doesn't give Gladstone the Chancellor's robe.

1809 -  Gladstone was born

1852 - Gladstone destroys the budget speech of Disraeli.

This Scepted Isle - 186/216

A period of bloody fighting marks the founding of the Imperial Raj in India.

1857 - Indian Mutiny

1600 - East India Company founded by Royal Charter

'Dutch East Indies in Suuth East Asia'

1663 - East India Company retreats to Bengal

'Clive of India' - wins Batlle of Plassey

1756 - 1763 - Seven Years War

James Ramsay - Governor General of India

'Lucknow'

This Sceptred Isle - 185/216

Palmerston

The controversial politician becomes Prime Minister at the age of 71.

1855 - Earl of Aberdeen's coalition falls. Palmerstone was Home Secretary.

Palmerstone was Lord Grey and then Melbourne's Foreign Secretary.

Palmerstone was Lord John Rusell's Foreign Secretary.

Victoria called Palmerstone  'Pilgerstein'.

Victoria ends up liking Palmerstone.

Victoria loved Melbourne.

'Sidney Herbert' - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ap&npgno=1639&eDate=&lDate=

Palmerstone establised an inquiry into the Crimean War (?).

1858 - Palmerstone wins the election.

 http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw04848/Henry-John-Temple-3rd-Viscount-Palmerston?LinkID=mp03436&search=sas&sText=henry+temple&role=sit&rNo=8 - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Rach 2 - Prom 6 - 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/july-18/14222

Shakespeare Uncovered

Jeremy Irons on the Henrys
Henry V (1944) - Laurence Olivier

The History of an Epic Struggle: R4

Ep 16 - On the Edge

This World is Not Conclusion - Poem by Dickinson

Book of the Week - The Etymologicon

Episode 2

'The author of the Inky Fool blog leads us on a fascinating journey tracing the connection between seemingly unrelated words and uncovers the links between the 'proof of a pudding', 'sausage-shaped poison', being hoist by a 'petard' and 'feisty heroines'.

The Etymologicon -  by Mark Forsyth

broil


botulus = latin word for sausage

botulism = 'sausage disease' - origin

'hoist with his own petard' - Hamlet quote

Paper was invented in China?

Episode 3

Turkey is native to America

Guinea Pigs are found in Guyana, SA

'Magnolia Forests'

1560s - Turkey becomes standard Christmas meal?

Alcohol = origin of word is Arabic