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...succeeded him as Caliph. The people of Kufa, a city in southern Iraq, responded by inviting Husayn, Ali and Fatima’s younger son, to lead them in a movement of opposition to him. Husayn accepted the invitation and with a small party of close family members and friends, he set out for Kufa from Medina where he had been living. A large detachment of soldiers sent by the...

...work on the lives of the saints tells the story of Ireland's patron saint...[Saint Patrick] Saint Patrick On the various accounts of Saint Patrick's life "The Irish have many lives of their great apostle, whereof the two principal are, that compiled by Jocelin, a Cistercian monk, in the twelfth century, who quotes four lives written by disciples of the saint; and that by...

...working and living conditions suffered by working-class women, but eventually joined the campaign for women’s suffrage. You will also spend some time with the prominent suffragette May Billinghurst, as well as looking at the ways in which the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and the First World War...