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...family members and then gather with friends and relatives to give each other gifts and to enjoy a meal together (and they may exchange special greetings cards). As well as an opportunity for prayer and rejoicing, Eid al-Adha is time for gratitude when people will thank God for all the blessings they have received. It is a time for generosity too, and Muslims are...

...family that had led military efforts towards independence. By the late 1660s, the Dutch Republic had become roiled by costly and disastrous wars with England and a growing public backlash against its liberal, republican rulers and their values. Into the fray came a remarkable book – and a remarkable author – which aimed to defuse the situation and protect the fragile...

...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, 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...

...family. After being educated at home until he was 13, he was sent to a prominent public school, Marlborough. Although he had begun to write poetry at an early age, his expectations – like those of many young men of his generation – were that his privileged life would continue without the need for him to do much more than indulge his hobbies of golf, hunting and...