On 8 April Shell's chief executive shocked the industry by announcing the acquisition of BG Group, the former exploration arm of British Gas, now one of the world's biggest gas producers.
Indeed, this exploration of recent British history is designed to orientate us prior to the general election, which likewise doesn't sound too promising.
Donoghue describes her previous three historical novels, Slammerkin, Life Mask and The Sealed Letter, as a "trilogy of explorations of the British class system".
There's also been an exploration of the modern British canon, with plays by Coward, Rattigan, Osborne, Stoppard, Ayckbourn and Frayn.
It's such a glorious exploration of character and British manners, especially by Alison Steadman, who I love.
The innate psychedelia of the human subconscious meets a ritualistic exploration of nature in British artist Henry Hudson's Sun City Tanning, on view at S|2, Sotheby's contemporary art gallery.
The story of the expedition – which led to the deaths in 1912 of Scott and his four colleagues after they discovered they had been beaten to the pole by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen – is one of the most poignant episodes in the history of British exploration and forms the focus of The Great White Silence, a film made by Herbert Ponting, the expedition's official photographer.
A movie adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1980 novel, "Midnight's Children," – whose magical-realist exploration of the partition of British India was highly praised but also generated a libel suit by Indira Gandhi that Mr. Rushdie lost – will be shown in India without any cuts from the country's film review board, the BBC reported.
He has traveled in revisionist territory before: his 1973 account of Livingstone took some of the sanctimony out of the patron saint of British exploration; his 2007 biography "Stanley" demonstrated that the Welsh-born journalist-explorer was not the brute of myth.
The discovery of Beagle2 on the surface of Mars confirms the mission as one of most glorious near-misses in the history of British exploration.
