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...become a renowned teacher and conductor. Her precocious musical gifts were apparent from the age of just two. Unfortunately, she also became ill with bronchial pneumonia at the same age, and her immune system was permanently weakened. She was ill for almost the rest of her life, suffering from regular flare-ups of the chronic intestinal tuberculosis which ultimately led...

...become an institution at the Last Night of the Proms. It has remained a focus for the celebration of Britishness, even though this has come under increasing criticism as a jingoistic anachronism in recent years. [The Giants' Causeway] Rather than suggest a confident assertion of Britishness, music reflecting the place of Britain as a seafaring nation has often expressed...

...ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers (Encyclopédia, or an Analytical Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Trades), published in Paris between 1751 and 1772 in 28 volumes and accompanied by 11 volumes of illustrative plates. (Further supplementary volumes were published almost up to the French Revolution in 1789.) The main editor of the work was...