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History & The Arts
The Mill on the Floss
Uncover the real places behind The Mill on the Floss and read the titles Eliot rejected.
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Society, Politics & Law
What is The Wilson Doctrine? The one minute guide
A very, very quick guide to the Wilson Doctrine.
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History & The Arts
National Poetry Day
Get your quills at the ready and your thesaurus on standby for this collection of content exploring the magical world of poetry on National Poetry Day.
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History & The Arts
Contemporary accounts of the 19th Century
Drawn from a range of sources - including diaries, newspaper reports, biography and more - a range of voices from the 19th Century.
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History & The Arts
Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
The publisher Charles Knight recorded his meetings with Thomas De Quincey in his autobiography, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century. He tells of a shy, but smart, man.
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History & The Arts
Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style
The Conservatives have announced plans for their own Trades Union movement, hoping to steal support from a traditionally left-leaning grouping. It has echoes of the late 19th Century...
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History & The Arts
Colour in Byzantine Art
What purpose do different colours serve in religious paintings? Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou explores...
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History & The Arts
How can the Hajj be made safer?
After a second tragedy at the 2015 Hajj, could understanding the psychology of crowds help to make future pilgrimages safer for everyone?
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Society, Politics & Law
The working-class garden
Thinking Allowed ranges across the history of gardening amongst the lower classes - the role of women, and how programmes like Ground Force threw working class traditions out to make way for all that decking.
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Society, Politics & Law
Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?
The BBC/OU series The Ascent of Woman set out to restore women missing from the official histories. In a personal view on the series, Leeds University's Jessica Meyer asks if the series left too many tales untold.
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Languages
Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom
Cruelly supressed during the Franco regime, the Catalan language is experiencing a revival - and bringing a sense of pride with it.
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History & The Arts
Hajj 2015: Balancing pilgrimage with consumerism
The accident at this year's Hajj is a reminder of the tensions between the devout and the consumerist being played out at the pilgrimage.