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BBC and History
In more recent times, Boudica has been the subject of numerous documentaries, including some by Discovery Channel, History International Channel ( now known as H2 ), and the BBC.
* Claudius I at BBC History
* Caligula at BBC History
* History of drum & bass, a BBC timeline on the history of drum & bass with track listings, quotes and samples
* Declaration of Arbroath, BBC History
* BBC History – The Easter Rising
According to BBC History: " There have been 53 major wars in Europe, France had been a belligerent in 49 of them ; UK 43.
However, BBC books such as The Infinity Doctors and Unnatural History imply that the Doctor's origin is complex and that every version is somehow " true " ( such as Susan's claim in the original version of An Unearthly Child that she was born in the 49th century ).
* Simon Schama, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC – 1603 AD BBC / Miramax, 2000 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; TV series A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 1603 – 1776 BBC / Miramax, 2001 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; A History of Britain-The Complete Collection on DVD BBC 2002
* Imhotep ( 2667 BC-2648 BC ), BBC History
* History of Optics ( audio mp3 ) by Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum ( recorded by the BBC ).
* du Sautoy, Marcus, A Brief History of Mathematics, BBC Radio 4 ( 2010 ).
* du Sautoy, Marcus, A Brief History of Mathematics, BBC Radio 4 ( 2010 ).
* BBC History: Robin Hood and his Historical Context
* The History of Stonehenge BBC animation of the monument's construction.

BBC and English
It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.
Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.
Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary making up daffynitions is a popular game on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
Déjà Vu is a 2009 radio play by Alexis Zegerman in French and English co-produced by BBC Radio 4 and ARTE Radio.
Orwell's confusing approach to matters of social decorum — on the one hand expecting a working-class guest to dress for dinner, and on the other, slurping tea out of a saucer at the BBC canteen — helped stoke his reputation as an English eccentric.
The Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation ( GBC ) operates Radio Gibraltar on both FM and AM, broadcasting a mix of local programming in English and Spanish, and retransmissions of the BBC World Service.
She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.
*" Robin Hood – the greatest of English myths " on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time featuring Stephen Knight, Thomas Hahn and Dr Juliette Wood
It is important not to confuse the notion of Received Pronunciation, as a standard accent, with the standard variety of the English language used in England that is given names such as " Standard English ", " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " or " BBC English ".
The Cambridge-published English Pronouncing Dictionary ( aimed at those learning English as a foreign language ) uses the term " BBC Pronunciation " on the basis that the name " Received Pronunciation " is " archaic " and that BBC news-presenters no longer suggest high social class and privilege to their listeners.
In 2002, the BBC used the headline " English and Welsh are races apart " to report a genetic survey of test subjects from market towns in England and Wales.
According to the English translation distributed by the BBC and other media outlets, he tells viewers he personally directed the 19 hijackers, and describes his motivation:
Warren Mitchell ( born Warren Misell ; 14 January 1926 ) is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part ( 1965 – 75 ), and its sequels Till Death ... ( ATV, 1981 ) and In Sickness and in Health ( BBC, 1985 – 92 ), all of which were written by Johnny Speight.

BBC and Reformation
* Keeping the Faith, BBC Radio 4 series in which people of different religions look at the English Reformation through the experience of their ancestors.

History and English
These lectures formed the nucleus of a general survey of English development which took form afterward as A History Of England.
The History takes too much for granted to serve as a text for other than English schoolboys, and like Britain in the nineteenth century it deteriorates badly as it goes beyond 1870.
Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.
( English edition ) Annales School: An Intellectual History.
The Old English versions of Orosius's Histories against the Pagans and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People are no longer accepted by scholars as Alfred's own translations because of lexical and stylistic differences.
Bede follows Gildas ' account of Ambrosius in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, but in his Chronica Majora he dates Ambrosius ' victory to the reign of the Emperor Zeno ( 474 – 491 ).
* Adam of Bremen, History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen, English translation by F. J. Tschan, Columbia University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-231-12575-5.
When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.
He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( The Ecclesiastical History of the English People ) gained him the title " The Father of English History ".
Bede's best-known work is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
The brown bear is sometimes referred to as the bruin, from Middle English, based on the name of the bear in History of Reynard the Fox, translated by William Caxton, from Middle Dutch bruun or bruyn, meaning brown ( the color ).
101-103 from The Gothic History of Jordanes ( English Version ), ed.
* The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I Ch. 6. 5: De Consolatione Philosophiae, 1907 – 1921.
He attended West Derby Comprehensive School followed by Childwall Hall College of Further Education, and studied A-levels in History, Government and Politics, English Literature and General Studies.
According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.
The best English edition is by James Waterworth ( London, 1848 ; With Essays on the External and Internal History of the Council ).
* History of Copacabana ( in English )
According to Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the term is interchangeable with the Gewisse, meaning the descendants of Gewis.
Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming ( 1576 ) and Stanley ( 1665 ) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας (" Varia Historia ") Chicago, 1995 ; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus ' " Varia Historia ", 1997 ; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.

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