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...research student. He returned to Skye as a teacher, then moved on to the Isle of Mull, and then back to Edinburgh in 1939. In late 1940 he entered the Army. He was wounded three times in the North African campaign – the third experience at the Battle of El Alamein ended his war, since many of the bones in his feet were broken. After convalescence he returned to teaching...

...research on different areas of history such as those we’ve identified in the textbook: political, economic, cultural or religious history. Each area makes use of a particular range of source materials. Economic historians make use of numerical data, while cultural historians draw on a wide range of sources, from texts such as diaries or letters, to objects such as...

...research interests are around arts and politics in Mexico in the period of the revolution of 1910 to 1920. And in particular, the murals of Diego Rivera. It was these murals that brought Rivera to the attention of North American patrons, who then paid for him to go north of the border to paint murals in their corporate headquarters. Yet today, I want to look at a painting...