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...changed from a poor country to a rich country. About 30% of the slave plantations in the Caribbean were owned by Scots. Cities such as Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee made large fortunes from this slavery. The buying and selling of slave-produced products such as sugar, coffee, cotton and tobacco transformed the wealth of these cities. For example, the Necropolis cemetery...

...change this. Every year, thousands of women leave the workplace. Losing these women is bad for them, bad for the industry, and bad for the economy. Many of these women could be supported to stay, if offered appropriate flexibility and reasonable adjustments. By thinking through what you can do to better support women within the music industry, you can help to retain their...

...changes, came the consolation of beautiful riverside beaches, thronged with people who looked gay at that distance, and beyond the Mersey rose the Welsh hills, blue, blue. III At the end of the tram-line, where we necessarily dismounted, we rejected a thatched cottage, offering us tea, because we thought it too thatched and too cottage to be quite true (though I do not...

...changing time and seasons, the transitions effected by lighting. [Patent image of Daguerre’s London Diorama] Patent image of Daguerre's London Diorama, 1823 With the viewer at the centre of the view, the frame was dissolved. No longer was the experience of landscape representation mediated by the baroque perspectival constructions of traditional city views. The visitor...