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Graffiti-covered door from French revolutionary wars found in Kent

Markings include public executions and a sailing ship chiselled into door in 1790s by bored English soldiers

The Guardian - UK

The Channel Tunnel, from pipe dream to European reality

This Monday marks 30 years since France and the United Kingdom officially opened the Channel Tunnel. It was the culmination of two centuries of dreaming about linking the two neighbours by land.

Radio France Internationale

Wild ride from Venice to the Hunter Valley on some well-travelled horses

Does the Hunter Valley have a strong link with St Mark's Basilica in Venice?

Newcastle Herald

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Restored cut of century-old Napoleon epic to screen at Cannes Film Festival

After a marathon restoration effort, visionary French director Abel Gance's silent masterpiece Napoleon will return to the big screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May – nearly 100 years after it was made.

Radio France Internationale

Exploring The Legacy Of 10 Legendary Military Leaders

Explore the legacies of ten legendary military leaders, from Alexander the Great to George Washington.

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Can't we send Trump into exile?

Tolstoy describes sending a defeated leader with no "human dignity" far, far away — and it sounds like a great idea

Salon

Apple Original Films bags 14 BAFTA Award nominations including Best Film for the hit movie Killers of the Flower Moon

Apple Original Films has picked up no less than 14 BAFTA Award nominations for Killers of the Flower Moon and more.

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Bored of the beach? Stay at these luxury Italian Lake hotels instead

You’ll find a restorative break at these handpicked Italian Lake hotels with Inspiring Travel

The Independent UK

Movie Review: Auto pioneer Enzo Ferrari gets a solid biopic but it doesn't make the heart race

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From Barbenheimer to Napoleon, hats became cinema's must-have accessory in 2023

Above everything else, the hats of 2023's best movies tells us that cinema is back

The Conversation

How the Christmas pudding, with ingredients taken from the colonies, became an iconic British food

As an American living in Britain in the 1990s, my first exposure to Christmas pudding was something of a shock. I had expected figs or plums, as in the “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” carol, but there were none. Neither did it resemble the cold custard-style dessert that Americans…

The Guardian - UK

No country for old men? Why Miyazaki, Loach and Scott can’t stop making movies

Together with Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood, long celebrated film directors are proving that entering their ninth decade and beyond is no barrier to ambition

The Conversation

Napoleon director Ridley Scott is calling on us historians to ‘get a life’ – and he has a point. Art is about more than historical facts

The release of Napoleon unleashed a torrent of objections to historical errors in the movie.

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Napoleon’s Surrendered Warship Gangway Auctioned For $75,741

Historic timber from HMS Bellerophon, where Napoleon surrendered, to be sold at auction.

Cinemablend

Ridley Scott Only Needed 61 Days To Shoot Napoleon, Explains To CinemaBlend Why Gladiator 2 Will Require Even Less Time

Legendary director Ridley Scott discusses how his filming methods allow him to shoot major films like Napoleon and Gladiator 2 in less than three months.

Reason

In Ridley Scott's Napoleon, Political Ambition Is Both Pathetic and Horrific

The new film is an anti-epic about the petty awfulness of history's great men.

The Independent UK

Vanessa Kirby opens up about nerves co-starring with Joaquin Phoenix in Napoleon

Kirby plays Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais in Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’

Cinemablend

Experts Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Taking Shots At Ridley Scott's Napoleon, But Not Everything Is Historically Inaccurate

Experts are still taking shots at the historical inaccuracies of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, but not everything is untrue.

Radio France Internationale

Ridley Scott's Napoleon epic divides and conquers cinema fans

Breathing life into the story of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was never going to be easy, especially for an Englishman. Director Ridley Scott’s version incorporates masterful battles scenes with a tortured love story between Napoleon and Josephine. After its worldwide release on Wednesday, it seems the war of the film…

The Guardian - UK

Critics of Napoleon epic have fallen for emperor’s fibs, says film’s military expert

The ex-para who advised Ridley Scott on the new movie’s battle scenes claims historians who attacked it have fallen for Bonaparte’s own hype

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