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La société coloniale en Algérie

Une reconstitution de la société coloniale algérienne et de ses inégalités, à partir d'images d'archives.

Barbados Elects its First President

On 21 October, the Caribbean nation of Barbados took the first step towards becoming a republic when the joint houses of Parliament chose Dame Sandra Mason as the country’s first president, to replace Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. Ms Mason, a trained lawyer and former magistrate, has been the Governor-General of Barbados since 2018: the representative of the British Crown on the island. Barbados will officially become a Republic on 30 November, its annual Independence Day, joining three other former British colonies in the Caribbean which have replaced the British monarch with an elected official: Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Dominica. All three remained members of the Commonwealth, which Barbados also intends to do. A committee is currently working on a new citizens'  charter for the new President to read out on Independence Day, and next year Parliament will make proposals for new Constitution. When the decision to move toward Republic status was approved in 2020, Governor General Mason, delivering a speech on behalf of the country’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley, said, “The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind.” Barbados was a British colony from 1627 century until independence in 1966. Colonists resorted to slave labour to produce sugar, with the result that today the population is in large majority descended from enslaved African people. Today it has a population of 285,000 and an economy based around tourism, finance and sugar production. This would be a good update for Shine Bright 1e File 7 Caribbean Vibes or    Shine Bright LLCER File 8 From Isle to Isle.

War Dance

Montpellier will see the French première of an extraordinary new dance and theatre piece about the experience of Indian soldiers in World War I on 26 and 27 June.

The Battle of the Somme 1916

The Battle of the Somme in 1916 was a tragic turning point in World War One for British and Empire forces. There are many on-going commemorations from 1 July to 18 November to commemorate the centenary of the battle.

Conseil lecture : « Une histoire globale des révolutions »

Rédigé par des spécialistes du monde entier, le livre explore la richesse de l'histoire révolutionnaire.

Mémoires d’un esclave, Oluale Kossola

À partir d'un itinéraire particulier, cette émission propose une histoire de la traite atlantique.

Black Indians from New Orleans

Through stories, traditional and contemporary costumes and pieces from the different peoples and tribes from Louisiana to the banks of Mississippi, The Black Indians from New Orleans exhibition unveils all the secrets of the Black Indians parades.

Victoria and Abdul

Twenty years after Mrs Brown, Judi Dench returns to cinema screens as Queen Victoria, in another true story of the Queen's friendship with one of her servants: Abdul Karim.

La couronne du Saint-Empire

Les élèves de 5e découvrent la splendide couronne du Saint-Empire ; couronne à la forme octogonale faite d'or, d'émail et de pierres précieuses. Cette couronne témoigne de l'excellence de l'art ottonien du Xe-XIe siècle.

Succession: Murdoch Media Empire

For decades, Rupert Murdoch has dominated the media, first in his native Australia, then the U.K., the U.S.A. and other countries around the world. He started with one newspaper inherited from his father in Adelaide and built an empire that has included at various times Sky TV, The Sun and The Times in the U.K., Fox News, Fox Film and The Washington Post in the U.S.A. Now the 92-year-old says he's semi-retiring and handing the reins of his empire to one of his sons.

L’interdiction des clubs féminins pendant la révolution

Femmes de la Révolution : de la marche sur Versailles aux clubs révolutionnaires, leur engagement politique.

Author Hanif Kureishi Chronicles Life from Hospital Bed

Buddha of Suburbia author Hanif Kureishi, 68, is hospitalised in Rome after a fall. His four limbs are paralysed and doctors don’t know if he will walk again. But he is using his voice to venture out into the world, and finding nourishment in the responses of his readers.

Le Colonel Chabert, un héros à l'épreuve du réalisme

The Jungle Book on Stage

Robert Wilson's new stage adaptation of The Jungle Book will be on in Paris, Aix-en-Provence and Clermont-Ferrand over the next few months. The visually striking production combines dialogues in French and original songs in English. Wilson created the show with Cocorosie, a music group composed of two American sisters based in France. The show follows the "man cub" Mowgli from his arrival in the jungle, where he is accepted into a family of wolves, until he comes of age and has to leave the only place he has known as home to enter the world of humans. https://youtu.be/xo8-i9UV2qk Jungle Book Théâtre de la Ville – 13e Art 30 avenue d'Italie 75013 Paris 6 October to  8 November From age 8 Tickets 10-28 euros Part of the Festival d'automne Grand Théâtre de Provence , Aix en Provence 17 to 22 December La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand 22 to 24 January 2020

Israël-Palestine, l'origine d'un conflit ancien

Comprendre les origines du conflit israélo-palestinien et faire le point sur les différentes guerres et leurs conséquences.

Spreading Swahili

7 July will be the first edition of World Kiswahili Language Day. The United Nations designated the official day in recognition of a language that is spoken by 200 million people across Africa. It is gaining in popularity and could one day replace English and French as a lingua franca native to the continent.

Celebrating Author Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys (1890-1979) lived and wrote about her extraordinary life in the West Indies, London and Paris before producing her masterpiece, The Wide Sargasso Sea, a prequel to Jane Eyre, telling the story of Bertha Mason, the Creole wife Mr Rochester married for her fortune, and who in Jane Eyre is portrayed as the madwoman in the attic.

À quoi sert la Francophonie ?

La tenue du 19e Sommet de la Francophonie à Villers-Cotterêts est l'occasion de faire le point sur le rôle de l’OIF. 

2021 Nobel Prize for Literature Turns the Spotlight on East Africa

The 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah from Tanzania, whose own experience of colonialism and exile have informed his ten novels as well as short stories and academic works.

Queen Victoria at the Arras Film Festival

As well as lots of new and upcoming films, the Arras Film Festival (4-13 November) is organising a retrospective of films around Queen Victoria, the Victorian age and the British Empire. It includes literary classics like Oliver Twist and Sherlock Holmes, films about the Empire such as Zulu and The Man Who Would Be King, and more recent portrayals of Queen Victoria herself such as Mrs Brown and Victoria and Abdul.

Windrush Day

Windrush Day is coming! But what is it exactly? It has been celebrated annually in the UK since 2018. It takes place on 22 June, the date in 1948 when the arrival of a ship called the HMT Windrush heralded the beginning of a wave of immigration from British colonies,. This 75th anniversary year will be an opportunity to celebrate the thousands of Caribbean people who emigrated to the U.K. in order to help rebuild the country in the aftermath of World War Two. On arrival, not only were they shocked at the unfriendly weather but they also felt rejected by the unfriendly British people.

What About Windrush?

There were various celebrations and exhibitions planned to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the beginning of West Indian mass immigration to the U.K., with the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks in London on 22 June 1948. Instead, a scandal has grown up about the treatment of the “Windrush Generation” that led to the resignation of the Home Secretary.

Princess Suffragette

Everyone has heard of the Suffragettes and their actions, yet, have you heard of Princess Suffragette? This Indian princess, whose father was the last ruler of the Sikh Empire, gave up her socialite life in order to fight for a cause.

Teaching About Windrush

The 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush in the UK, and the current scandal about the treatment of the children of the Windrush Generation, give an opportunity to look at the experiences of Commonwealth immigrants to the U.K.

New Reading Guide: The Buddha of Suburbia

As promised, our latest Reading Guide for Terminale LLCER, The Buddha of Suburbia  by Hanif Kureishi Is at the printers and will be available at the beginning of March.

The Big Reveal: Our Next Reading Guide Will Be...

Thank you to all of you who answered our poll about which of the oeuvres intégrales for Terminale LLCER you would like a Reading Guide for first. And the winner is… The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) by Hanif Kureishi, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a boy with an English mother and Pakistani father growing up in the 1970s in the London suburbs.

Starting a Revolution with Tea in Boston

On 16 September 1773, an event took place that went on to spark the American Revolution: citizens of Boston, Massachusetts, dumped hundreds of crates of tea into the sea to protest against British "taxation without representation". This December, the city is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

250 Years of U.S. Democracy: The Boston Tea Party

On 16 December 1773, an event took place that went on to spark the American Revolution: citizens of Boston, Massachusetts, dumped hundreds of crates of tea into the sea to protest against British "taxation without representation". This December, the city is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

Musical Migrations

Last year, the Immigration Museum in Paris held an excellent exhibition on the influence of migration from former colonies on the musical culture of the UK and France after decolonisation in the 1960s. Paris-London Musical Migrations fits perfectly with the themes of  Shine Bright 1e File 7 Caribbean Vibes and   Shine Bright LLCE File 8 From Isle to Isle. Although the museum has been closed during lockdown, they have had the great idea of making an online version of the exhibition available. This B1-B1+ worksheet will allow pupils to get the most out of the online exhibition, complementing the documents in their books. Axes du programme : Identités et échanges / Territoire et mémoire LLCE : La confrontation à la différence Stuctures and vocabulary preterite infinitive clauses causatives music changes cause and consequence Pragmatic objectives Creating a poster Culture music in London immigration to the UK the Caribbean islands/West Indies Methods summarising events creating a timeline The exhibition site.  

The Human Face of the Windrush Scandal

A new BBC film tells the true story of one man’s experience of being told that after 50 years he no longer had the right to live in the UK.