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...worlds of ancient Greece and Rome with this collection of free courses on the classical world...The birth of the goddess Athena from the head of her father, Zeus. Image by Flaroh Illustration. The courses are: Exploring Homer's Odyssey Exploring ancient Greek religion The many guises of the emperor Augustus Herodotus and the invention of history Exploring Ovid's big ideas...

...world, towards employment in manufactures and commerce? It was earlier than one might think. In a chapter by Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Tony Wrigley from 2014, they estimated that, as early as c. 1710, 37.7 per cent of working men and women were already part of the “secondary sector”, which is mostly manufactures, plus a few other areas such as building. Although some of...

...world. Nowadays, the Theory of Moral Sentiments is generally only remembered by historians, but Smith’s contemporaries rightly hailed it as a revolutionary book. Other eighteenth-century philosophers were attempting to mould human behaviour according to external commands derived from religion or philosophical systems. Smith, though, argued that human morality was...

...heritage organisation Cadw. Instead, as BBC Radio Wales has highlighted, it was the result of a four-year grass-roots campaign by local residents. [Pembroke Castle, Wales] Henry VII - born Henry Tudor - was born at Pembroke Castle in 1457 Henry came to power by defeating the infamous Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. He could claim descent from medieval Welsh...

...World War. He modelled the silence on a practice he had observed over there known as the ‘three minutes’ pause’: “At noon each day, all work, all talk and all movement were suspended for three minutes that we might concentrate as one in thinking of those – the living and the dead – who had pledged and given themselves for all that we believe in.” It seemed...