Charity building a museum+archives (1) The shaping of Britain/Europe to 1950 (2) Europeanism and Euroscepticism 1950-2015 (3) Brexit and aftermath 2016-2020
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We are after artefacts, books and archives.
Material that can set out this country's complex relationship with its continental neighbours.
The story of the road to Brexit.
A bulletin from the EdN MEP Group of Sir Jimmy Goldsmith, which included some of the most prominent European Eurosceptics of its time.
Perhaps you have material that will help us tell the story - one that is bigger than just the UK finding its place, but other countries too.
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In 1782, about 535 exhausted people arrived on the bank of the Dnipro in southern Ukraine.
However, they were Swedes. They had set off nine months earlier from an island off Estonia, and they would go on speaking their old Swedish dialect there for the next 200 years.
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4 November 1956. Soviet forces entered Hungary to supress the uprising which began in October. Soviet tanks immediately captured Hungary’s airfields, highway junctions and bridges. Fighting took place all over the country, but the Hungarian forces were quickly defeated.
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Our new exhibit is open from today! 'Besieged' looks at the sieges of the Civil Wars, an overlooked part of the conflict affecting military & civilian alike, with 8 sieges for every major battle. Details at: cromwellmuseum.org/whats-on/… In association with the Fortress Study Group.
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On this day in 1814, the Congress of Vienna opened.
The world powers gathered to settle on the borders of Europe after more than 20 years of war with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France.
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Drop by Huntingdon Library between 2pm - 6pm today to see our working model of the Naseby, Cromwell's flagship. Originally built by Fred Pearl, it's currently being restored by our talented volunteers, who are bringing it to life using Pearl's notes.
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For 104 years, a tiny triangle of Europe belonged to no country at all.
It had a mayor, a flag, briefly a casino, and in 1908 it very nearly became the world's first Esperanto-speaking state.
This was Neutral Moresnet, and it came about because of a hole in the ground.
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An item with a message or a story to it? We'll happily take donated items big or small*
* We'll probably cap it at bus size.
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there are very similiar stones near my home. Marking the border between the long defunct states of Duchy of Braunschweig and the Kingdom of Hannover.
Those states ceased to exist long ago and are now both part of a united germany. The stones are still there
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This town ended up in the wrong country because of one word.
Llívia is a little piece of Spain entirely surrounded by France, high in the Pyrenees. It exists because 17th-century negotiators argued it was a town, not a village.
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RIP Emma Bonino, former Commissioner.
To Eurosceptics, a scourge of UK (and Canadian) fishermen and an arch-federalist. Also a woman of profound convictions. Strikingly she declared mid-90s that the UK could unilaterally leave the CFP, but it would leave the EU in the process.
Bra rende omaggio a Emma Bonino con una seduta straordinaria del Consiglio comunale comune.bra.cn.it/it/news/bra…
The history of Britain's continental ties includes competing associations and alliances.
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100 years ago, the beloved children's book Winnie-the-Pooh created by English author A A Milne was published.
It was not until 1987 that a German translation appeared which truly did justice to Milne’s work: the version translated by Harry Rowohlt.
Happy birthday, Pu der Bär!
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Such a brilliant view of the Storting from our hotel.
We're going to Question Time this morning! We'll see how it compares to watching PMQs in London earlier this year. – at Oslo, Norway
The last Scandinavian - Viking - raid on England was as late as AD 1153.
The first, 793. And with conquest, settlement, accommodation, bribery, baptism, and expulsion in between.
The footprints - archaeology, language, place names - can still be seen.
It was a two way street.
The network of abbeys is a beautiful reminder of continental influence on Britain, but also the Celtic British role in first developing them and the Anglo-Saxon export of great missionaries and scholars.
🧵Rievaulx Abbey, nestled in a secluded valley within the North York Moors, stands as one of England’s most powerful symbols of monastic architectural grandeur. Founded in 1131 by Cistercian monks, it quickly grew into one of the wealthiest and most influential monasteries in
ALT An aerial view of Rievaulx Abbey, a ruined Cistercian monastery located near Helmsley in the North York Moors National Park. The Abbey Church, the main cruciform structure dominating the upper section of the image is uniquely, oriented north-south rather than the traditional east-west, a modification forced by the steep and narrow valley landscape. The long arm extending to the right is the magnificent, light-stone Gothic presbytery built in the 1220s, while the shorter western end to the left consists of the simpler, 1140s Romanesque nave, The large, open green square surrounded by pathways directly adjacent to the church. This central courtyard served as the literal and social hub connecting all major living and working quarters of the abbey. Image: Adobe Images.