The Yorks

The Duke of York launches iDEA Digital Enterprise Award and says 'failure is good for children’

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1st April 2014
<![CDATA[The Duke of York has launched an initiative to encourage young people to start their own business with the Nominet Trust. The iDEA pilot scheme hopes to support 1,000 budding entrepreneurs by investing £150,000 into their ideas for business plans. The Digital Enterprise Award will enable young business men and women to build digital prototypes to test the viability of their business…
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Features

Preview of final episode of 'The Plantagenets'

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30th March 2014
<![CDATA[In the final episode of The Plantagenets, Professor Robert Bartlett reveals the events that led to the downfall of England’s longest ruling dynasty in the fifteenth century. The Death of Kings sees Professor Bartlett discuss the bloodiest decades of the Plantagenet’s history. Bartlett takes viewers through how family rivalries became so brutal that close relatives turned…
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British Royals

Questions arise as to the validity of Richard III remains

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28th March 2014
<![CDATA[ It was heralded as “one of the biggest archaeological finds in history,” according to The Leicester Mercury. The remains of Richard III that was discovered in a Greyfriars car park in February 2013 is now in question. Professor Michael Hicks the head of history at the University of Winchester and Professor Martin Biddle director of the Winchester Research Unit and an archaeologist…
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Features

Dame Quentin Bryce retires as Governor-General of Australia

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26th March 2014
<![CDATA[Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO has ended her term as the first female Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia today, after performing her last public appearances in this role. Dame Quentin left Government House with a full police escort bound for the Australian War Memorial. She arrived at the AWM with her husband, Michael, and both were greeted by Dr Brendan Nelson, Director of…
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