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...public facilities, but I chose to go into the licensed victualler's next the station and sit down to a peaceable cup of tea rather than contest a place on that bloody benching; and so I made the acquaintance of an interior out of literature, such as my beloved Thomas Hardy likes to paint. On a high-backed rectangular settle rising against the wall, and almost meeting in...

...public parks and they would plant it in a slightly different way, design it slightly differently. It might have bamboo or it might have a cherry tree for the spring blossom. It might have Japanese maples, peace roses, maybe even a little pagoda in some instances. And these became called peace gardens. And they were seen as the sort of horticultural manifestation of the...

...public Shinto ceremonies. In fact, the idea of Shinto as a (single) religion was more-or-less forced on Japan during the US occupation after the end of the Second World War. This underlines that while the roots of the World Religions model is in the colonial period, its effects were being played out throughout the twentieth century, and continue today...Why not ‘World...