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...history of racial violence. During the Birmingham campaign, in April 1963, he issued a masterful public letter explaining the motivations behind his crusade. It stands in striking contrast with his hopeful 1957 sermon. His “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” responded to a newspaper advertisement from eight local clergymen urging King to allow the city government to enact...

...A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment, Forbidden Lives: LGBT Stories from Wales a A Practical Guide to Searching LGBTQIA Historical Records (LGBTQ Histories. Dysgwch fwy ar OpenLearn [AC Collection] Mae’r adnodd hwn yn rhan o gasgliad Dinasyddiaeth Weithgar yng Nghymru. Gallwch ddod o hyd i fwy o adnoddau fel hyn ar hafan y casgliad....

...history as a language of literature begins not with the written word but with music and performance in the shape of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (eighth century BCE) and a great body of ‘lyric’ poetry performed at festivals and symposia (aristocratic drinking parties). At the same time it was also in daily use in Greek settlements across the Aegean sea, the coast of...

...history, for mythology and for the Christian legends’ (Fromentin, 1948 [1876], p. 91, 95 and 98). According to Fromentin, we need to recognise the close connection between art and society if we are to appreciate the distinctive character of Dutch seventeenth-century painting: The revolution which had just made the Dutch people free, rich and so ready to undertake...