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...2-year stay in France. It is his two books, rather than his acts, that have left their mark on the world. Nowadays, the Theory of Moral Sentiments is generally only remembered by historians, but Smith’s contemporaries rightly hailed it as a revolutionary book. Other eighteenth-century philosophers were attempting to mould human behaviour according to external commands...

...2: Alice Bah Kuhnke [Alice Bah Kuhnke] Meet Alice Bah Kuhnke, who between October 2014 and January 2019 was Sweden's first ever minister for Culture & Democracy. (Previously, the culture ministry had had no remit to encourage citizenship and participation.) Alice was born in Malmo, but grew up in Småland, in the south of Sweden. At school, she excelled as a sprinter, but...

...2 million of research at BASF to produce a commercially viable industrial route. A few years later, the Indian indigo trade was dead. Almost all the indigo used from then until now has been synthetically derived. Only for a short time during the First World War was trade in the natural dye revived, but it succumbed almost immediately in the post-war period. Dyes and the...