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...English-speaking market, presenting the tunes alone or giving them English words. To present them with their original Welsh words was to insist on the significance of the culture of the common people of Wales – in Welsh, the 'gwerin'. The book also broke new ground as the first published example of collecting Welsh traditional songs ‘in the field’ from living,...

...English Heritage Blue Plaque Commemorating Bertrand Russell]English Heritage Blue Plaque Commemorating Bertrand Russell. But ideas about what constitutes British heritage have altered radically between the second half of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twenty-first. So much so that schemes like this have become sites for conflicting ideas about what...

...English commentary. [Cyrus cylinder] Extract from the Cyrus cylinder, an account of the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus, 539 BC Although 'The Histories' was written on papyrus, other writings have been found on clay tablets, for example the Cyrus Cylinder, illustrated here as an example of cuneiform Babylonian in 539 BC. The Cyrus Cylinder provides valuable cross-references...