Was Queen Matilda more important to William the Conqueror's reign than even he realized? Was Francis Walsingham a role model for future security chiefs? Was Alfred The Great a signifcant shaper of the Viking experience in the British Isles? Answers and more (such as rugby and war) in this edition of History.
This project may be of interest to anyone involved in curriculum development. The brochure is the work completed on a British Council project to create a core curriculum based, in part, on the CEFR. The British Council and EAQUALS have joined together to create a core curriculum inventory for the English language based around key language points for each level, including grammar, vocabulary, discourse markers and functions.
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britiain
Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed. Nineteen years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture. "God's Architect" is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure.
