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David McK (3716 KP) rated The Aeronauts (2019) in Movies

Mar 29, 2020

The Aeronauts (2019)

2019 | Adventure, Drama

7.3

(11 Ratings)

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1860's period action/drama piece, starring Eddie Redmayne (I still associate him more with Newt Scaramander) and Felicity Jones (who I still associate more with Rogue One), told pretty much in 'real-time' and charting an attempt by a Royal Society meteorologist James Glaisher to ascent in a hot air balloon to study the weather in a period when nobody believed this was possible, and when the sky was still largely unknown

That much is fact.

The character of Amelia Wren, however? Completely made up - I only discovered this afterwards, when I read a bit more into it!

Predictably light-weight, and released (early?) on Amazon Prime - due to the current global pandemic - I'm happy enough to have seen this one, but am also happier that I didn't have to pay to do so in the cinema!

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Daoist Philosophy and Literati Writings in Late Imperial China: a Case Study of 'The Story of the Stone'

Zuyan Zhou

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This volume first explores the transformation of Chinese Daoism in late imperial period through the...

British Buses: 1945-1975

James Taylor

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At the end of World War II, Britain was desperate for new buses and coaches. The manufacturers who...

Accelerated Stability Assessment Program (ASAP): Fundamentals and Pharmaceutical Industry Practices

Fenghe Qiu and Garry Scrivens

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Accelerated Stability Assessment Program (ASAP): Fundamentals and Pharmaceutical Industry Practices...

Late Ruskin: New Contexts

Francis O'Gorman

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This title was first published in 2001. Ruskin said that 1860 marked the beginning of his 'proper...

A Chronicle of Jails

Darrell Figgis, William Murphy and Fearghal McGarry

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The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland...

A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity

Janet H. Tulloch

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A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity explores women's history in the West from 500 BCE to...

ClareR (6074 KP) rated The Other Boleyn Girl in Books

Jun 24, 2019

The Other Boleyn Girl

Philippa Gregory | 2003 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance

7.6

(23 Ratings)

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I read this quite a long time ago, but I have to say that I do read all of Philippa Gregory’s books because they’re just really good stories. I do have a bit of a thing about the Tudor period, and I’ve read a fair bit of both fiction and non-fiction around the period. I’m aware that this (and her others) may be heavily fictionalised, but part of reading is entertainment, no? But I do like how I feel immersed in these stories.
And who knew that Anne Boleyn’s sister had an affair with Henry VIII before Anne married him (well, when the book came out, not many people seemed to know - unless they were very heavily into their history!)? And honestly, I wouldn’t be overly surprised if a lot of goes on in the book actually happened!