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...work of the sci-fi author Ursula K LeGuin, who died earlier this week...[Ursula K Le Guin] Hermaphrodite beings, dragon women, ambivalent utopias and sympathetic magic. Just a tiny taste of the fantasy and science fiction worlds created by Ursula K Le Guin, who has died at the ripe age of 88. Le Guin challenged everything that came before and opened up new ways of doing...

...work...[Jane Austen 10 pound note] 'Austenmania’ has been a prominent feature of British culture for the last decade and more, and never more so than in the year which marks the bicentenary of her death. The extent of 21st century national and international popular investment in Jane Austen and her novels, expressed in part by the decision to put her image on the new...

...work – how different people, in different social circumstances and with different ideas and objectives and wishes – deal with each other to influence events and produce the outcomes that we can observe. Within that, partly due to the major debates being conducted by other historians in the field, I’ve focused a lot on warfare and the effect of religious change on...

...work in entirely new ways, and technological change was both a cause and an effect of this. While many Viking artefacts of the period are familiar, the complex methods that lay behind their manufacture are less well-known. Each involved a specialised set of skills, tools and raw materials, which meant craftspeople were reliant not only on a market for sale, but also on a...

...work. Emma Sutton uses Woolf's story A Simple Melody to explain...[Virginia Woolf in 1902] Virginia Woolf As Virginia Woolf’s letters and diaries amply record, music was a central part of her social life as it was for many of her contemporaries and she was at her best as a humorist writing about these occasions. She records with glee the various mishaps that befall...