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...human emotions and suffering; at the same time, they often update the details for a new contemporary audience. For instance, Matisse’s painting Icarus is widely seen as an evocative image of twentieth-century warfare: the single red dot in the figure’s chest has been interpreted as ‘a modern pilot who has been shot down, and falls through a sky illuminated with...

...human beings started engaging with music. Putting together larger groups of musicians and singers and making acoustic instruments louder certainly helped to increase the potential numbers of listeners to live music, but major changes took place in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries thanks to fast-paced technological change. In the nineteenth century it became possible...

...the extent of the violence it contained. The remainder of Mary Prince’s life remains unknown but, in 2007, her contribution to the ending of slavery was recognised when a plaque was unveiled in her honour at the University of London’s Senate House, the site of the house where she lived in 1829. Try these learning materials on slavery, abolition and human rights...