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...writing of the words and the composition of the tune now inseparable from them. William Williams’ hymns were a staple of Welsh-language Christian worship right through the intervening period, while the Peter Williams’ translation of this hymn was included in many English language hymnals in Wales and beyond. Among Welsh-speaking congregations, a range of tunes have...

...write histories of buildings. History, though, changes as each generation asks new questions about the past. A social history of architecture emerged during the twentieth century, exploring the relationship between buildings and their occupants: how people used, valued, and changed their living and working spaces. This has helped change the focus of architectural history...

...writing about “primitives”, they were also intrigued by elements of their own culture, in particular “wild” and “primitive” practices and cognitive operations, based not in some far-off distant shore or in some time before time, but right in their midst, in the delirium of Romanticism, superstitious “folk” traditions and more. All kinds of anxieties about...

...writing). In this free course you’ll examine one of Christie’s most significant works, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and explore the evolution of British detective fiction in relation to Christie’s background, literary modernism and the development of middlebrow fiction. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A893 MA...

...writing career extended from the 1770s, when Enlightenment writing was at its height, to his death in 1832, by which time Romanticism was in full flood. Schubert's important work was concentrated into a period of 15 years at most. Goethe for many years enjoyed esteem and status beyond that of any literary figure in Europe. Schubert was, until long after his death,...