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What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?

...English-speaking nations such as Canada or Australia as ways forward. On their own, however, they are inadequate substitutes for the scale of existing economic and security relations which root Britain firmly into a transatlantic community. Theresa May and a Known Unknown President Close relations between presidents and prime ministers have often personified UK-US...
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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...houses and associated estates for English and Scottish landowners into a predominantly poor rural subsistence economy with a tribal hierarchy. Many of the origins of Ireland’s troubles can be traced to this invasion. Some of the big houses are now hotels while others are publicly accessible National Trust properties. Find out more about the geology of Northern Ireland....
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The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...English and Scottish Parliaments. He had no time for romantic views of Scotland’s Celtic past: for him, the Highland clans represented a past not far removed from barbarism, which he identified with violence, poverty and arbitrary power. Conversely, he saw England as a beacon of progress and civilisation – a much wealthier country with a powerful elected Parliament...
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Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...English fans and the Bratislavian police. In 2007 there was a spate of ugly incidents which included the unveiling of a banner celebrating the birthday of Adolf Hitler in the stands at a SK Slovan Bratislava match. With a background like this, being the first African-born player to represent Slovakia becomes an even greater challenge. It's a challenge to which Karim...
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What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...English civil war story, or you can fail it on just a gentle, unconvincingness, or a cowardice, just pulling back from things you can’t be bothered to research but you can’t find out, which just makes it less believable. But I think John Mullan in How Novels Work makes a very interesting point about this which is that in a way if you do pile in the bibliographies the,...
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‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus
History & The Arts

‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus

...English. It can suggest ‘word’, ‘argument’ or an ‘account’ (as in: ‘In the beginning was the word [logos]’, John 1.1). 'Logos' derives from the verb 'legein', ‘to speak’, and implies ‘that which was said’. It seems to be in this sense that Herodotus uses it. He often prefaces the ‘logoi’ he relates with ‘the Athenians say’, or ‘the...
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...English working classes begins in the second half of the eighteenth century with the invention of the steam engine and of machines for spinning and weaving cotton. It is well known that these inventions gave the impetus to the genesis of an industrial revolution.” He borrowed the full phrase “industrial revolution” from continental economic discourse; but the...
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Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...English text of Engels' Condition of the Working Class in England , 1845. To remedy what Engels described as ‘a mass of helplessness and misery’, London County Council cleared the slum and built Arnold Circus. Unfortunately, the original slum inhabitants could not afford the rents of these first council houses so they were forced into new slums further to the east....
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