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...social pressures of conventional marriage. They arrived in Llangollen in 1778 and settled there as a couple, becoming famous throughout Europe as the 'Ladies of Llangollen'. Painting by J.H. Lynch c.1880 courtesy of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru /The National Library of Wales. Some people think of history as something that should be confined to books and school lessons,...

...social, political and cultural frameworks influence how people engage with the past in which identities are created and sustained. Historical knowledge has the power to influence how people value past eras and construct their lived experiences through their own interpretations. It also impacts on how they understand themselves and is significant because of its role in the...

...social scientists has been ongoing since the Enlightenment. Among the Enlightenment intellectuals Auguste Comte (pictured), the founding father of French sociology, is the only one that presented fetishism in some sort of positive light (Böhme, 2014). In contrast with other intellectuals such as Hume, for whom fetishism and polytheism were the crude beginnings of all...