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...concept, based around those in positions of power deciding what and who should be remembered for the benefit of the nation. As Sara McDowell says, ‘Our landscapes are valuable documents on the power plays from which social life is constructed, both materially and rhetorically’. In recent years, however, there has been a shift to approach the concept from a more...

...concepts of public and private and the proper relations between them; ideas of royal authority in the post-Napoleonic era of restoration of hereditary monarchies across Europe; the fashion for Oriental scholarship and the ‘Oriental tale’; and powerfully interconnected ideas of trade, empire and the East. By the end of the unit, therefore, you will, I hope, have...

...prompt considerations within the group on the meaning of loyalty. In his novel Williams gets to the heart of human vulnerabilities at moments of competing loyalties. The CCIG-funded 'Loyalties' seminar at Kellogg College, Oxford, set out to investigate some of the divided or dual loyalties of former British communists. A prospect enhanced by the recent release of Security...

...prompt our further investigation. This style of narrative links with our discussion on Historiography in 'Classical Studies: more than the words'. Academic commentary: How and Wells Now try doing the same with some of the commentary from the scholarly authority on Herodotus, WW How and J Wells. This is available in full from the Gutenberg Project, where it may be...