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The week in TV: Mary & George; The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson; The Gentlemen; Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice – review

Julianne Moore revels in an X-rated period romp, Jennifer Arcuri enlivens a predictable Boris Johnson profile, and Guy Ritchie’s eight-part drama resorts to stereotypes

The Guardian - UK

Drama depicts King James I of England and his male lover – but how much of it is true?

Mary and George tells the story of the relationship between the king and George Villiers

The Guardian - UK

STARZ's Mary & George: Intriguing Psychodrama Premieres April 5

Explore the controversial and boundary-pushing STARZ series 'Mary & George' as it delves into seduction, power dynamics, and political intrigue in the Engl...

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‘We had a very dry orgy!’ Tony Curran on mastering Jacobean sex for Mary & George

The actor stars alongside Julianne Moore in this salacious TV drama about the troubled monarch’s lascivious life. He explains how he negotiated palace backstabbing – and stately home sex shoots

The Guardian - UK

Mary & George: what’s true and what's false – fact checking the scandalous new Sky show

The story of a mother and son who rose from the fringes to the top of Jacobean society is now a lavish new drama

Evening Standard

Shock of the old: 11 vintage, vaginal and downright dangerous cigarette ads

In the days when smoking was advertised everywhere, the sell was often genuinely bizarre: from dancing polar bears to Ronald Reagan to recommendations from friendly doctors

The Guardian - UK

Union With David Olusoga review – finally! A history show that’s not deathly dull

Most history documentaries are so drearily simplistic they make you cross-eyed with boredom. Thank goodness then for this fascinating, first-rate effort about how our septic isle came to be

The Guardian - UK

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‘We live in a complicated country’: David Olusoga on the UK’s contested union, then and now

The historian’s new TV series, Union, exposes the contradictions and conflicting identities that have beset the United Kingdom from its earliest alliances to our present divisions

The Guardian - UK

John Bradbury obituary

Other Lives: Sculptor who carved a life-sized figure of William Caxton in Westminster Abbey and won awards for his work on Cambridge colleges

The Guardian - UK

Autumn TV preview 2023: all the best dramas coming in the new Fall season

In our exclusive Autumn TV preview we reveal the best dramas on their way over the next few months.

WhatToWatch

‘Heart-stopping’: censored pages of history of Elizabeth I reappear after 400 years

British Library uses new technique to uncover passages of Camden’s Annals, the first official account of Elizabeth’s reign

The Guardian - UK

BBC issues correction after major error about Scottish royalty

THE BBC has issued a correction after it excluded the history of Scottish royalty from a news report ...

The National (Scotland)

Edinburgh Castle in embarrassing Scottish king blunder

EDINBURGH Castle has come under fire for an embarrassing blunder involving a Scottish King born in the historic fortress.

The National (Scotland)

London commuters baffled as Gunpowder Plot conspirators ride the tube

A group of reenactors of the 1605 event took to the London Underground this morning - to highlight the fact that over a quarter of Brits lack knowledge of the historical plot

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Daily Mirror

One in six Brits believe the Gunpowder Plot is a fictional story, research finds

A group of reenactors of the 1605 event took to the London Underground this morning, leaving commuters baffled as they rode towards Westminster

Daily Mirror

What is the Coronation Spoon and how will it be used in King Charles' Coronation?

King Charles III's Coronation will feature the aptly named Coronation Spoon, which is over 600 years old and has an unusual use - but it's not for eating coronation chicken

The Guardian - UK

Coronation quiz – how much do you know about the ceremony and its history?

Test your knowledge of the pageantry, pomp and regalia that accompany the crowning of a British monarch

WhatToWatch

Mary & George: release date, episode guide, cast, trailer and everything you need to know about the historical drama

Mary & George is a historical series starring Julianne Moore, Nicholas Galitzine and Tony Curran that tells the true story of an ambitious mother who wants her son to seduce a king.

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The Inspiration Of William Shakespeare From Student Theatre And Shaping Of Academic Literature

Shakespeare used this to inspire some of his most famous characters such as Hamlet and Macbeth and how his work shaped literature.

Daily Record

Codebreakers uncover secrets of Mary Queen of Scots lost letters

Experts said the codebreakers' work is the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years.

The Independent UK

Secret messages from Mary Queen of Scots’ prison letters finally decoded

Experts said the codebreakers’ work is the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years

The Independent UK

Codebreakers crack secrets of Mary Queen of Scots’ lost letters

The letters date from 1578 to 1584, a few years before Mary’s beheading 436 years ago.

The Guardian - UK

Theatrical tour tells LGBTQ+ history of Tower of London

Case of soldier charged with being ‘disorderly in female attire’ among stories told in Queer Lives tour

The Guardian - AU

The Tempest review – Shakespeare gets a radical edit from Sydney Theatre Company

Richard Roxburgh as Prospero and Guy Simon as Caliban are outstanding in Kip Williams’ latest production, which takes a revolutionary approach to the script

The Independent UK

Why is Bonfire Night celebrated? How Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder Plot backfired

Thwarted bid to blow up House of Lords made 17th century Britain even less tolerant

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