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...systems work – how different people, in different social circumstances and with different ideas and objectives and wishes – deal with each other to influence events and produce the outcomes that we can observe. Within that, partly due to the major debates being conducted by other historians in the field, I’ve focused a lot on warfare and the effect of religious...

...system in need of reform by and for its female members. More than this, Tomasin becomes one of the gruesome hags who have murdered her baby brother. In this respect, The Witch echoes old misogynist fairy tales, which often feature actual or attempted infanticide, as much as it revels in the witch’s power to destroy an authoritarian patriarch. Eggers’ complex depiction...

...think about their values on a range of subjects from environmentalism and agriculture to corporate advertising and new technologies.” This activist spirit stems from what The Guardian has called the “greatest protest song ever”. Young wrote the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song “Ohio” in May 1970 in response to the shootings of four Kent State University...

...thinking about dates from the Classical period, remember that BC years (as opposed to AD years) count backwards. Browse along the Timeline to get a feel for some of what happened between 1250 and 100 BC, from roughly the date of the Trojan War to Roman domination of the Mediterranean, Europe and beyond. Ancient terms and taking it further We sometimes use Greek or Latin...

...think, who was the wisest and justest, and the best man I have ever known" (Phaedo, 118). Socrates' influence was felt immediately in the actions of his disciples as they formed their own interpretations of his life, teachings, and death, and set about forming their own philosophical schools and writing about their experiences with their teacher. Of all these writings we...