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...out to new audiences and devise new ways of communicating with them. The rewards are many: to maintain status and respect, to win hearts and influence people, even to foster a warm sense of nationhood. This album also contains academic perspectives from Tim Benton, Professor of Art History at The Open University; Laurajane Smith, Reader in Heritage Studies at the...

...to rule...Hadrian's Rome: 1 Introducing Hadrian - The aim of this section is to find out a little more about Hadrian and the major sources of evidence for his reign. [Described image] Figure 1 Marble bust of Hadrian, c.125–130 CE, height 84 cm. Excavated from Tivoli, now in the British Museum, London, 1805,0703.95. Photo: Bridgeman Images. Activity 1 Begin by establishing some basic information about Hadrian. Use the ......

...out, it seems. Geoffrey Horrocks Well, that’s certainly true, I mean, particularly individual slang words, they do tend to be short-lived in the spoken language but that’s not the full story. Other changes take hold, can take hold, and then become quite general amongst the whole population. Most English people don’t pronounce an R sound now after vowels in words...