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...English workers and the technical know-how of foremen or overseers, who brought valuable experience from working in factories back home. Meanwhile, in New York City, immigrant workers from the British Isles were breaking into the printing industry. The textile industries of New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania relied heavily on them too, and both English and Scottish...

...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 and French language sources indicate that in the more distant past it was not yet clearly distinguished from other warm hues, such as red and even yellow. Paintings dating from the fifteenth century onwards, however, typically depict Venus (also known as Aphrodite), the classical goddess of love, beauty and desire, with pinkish toned draperies, suggesting that the...