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...religion, their connections, their ways of doing things, and the result was a completely new way of living, a Roman way of living. Paula James voice-over Rome itself grew into a showcase of architecture with new buildings paid for by the conquests of Rome’s generals. The city centre became a monument to Roman achievements and history. The writing of history was for...

...religion - Concern about the morality of the education that prisoners received also put some limits on the expansion of the curriculum. Education was meant to be ‘reformatory’ – to make convicted criminals into better people. Prison education was not about giving men, women and children particular skills to enable them to get jobs. Instead, it was thought that...

...religion in nineteenth-century Wales. This extract is from Programme 8, Crisis, of the BBC Radio Wales Millennium History series, The People of Wales (1999). Audio 11 (duration 0:49)...Welsh history and its sources: 3.8.1 Public houses - Neil Evans describes the function of pubs in Wales in the nineteenth century. This extract is from Programme 9, From blue books to white...

...religions, like Islam or Christianity (in which a god creates the world). Or you might have included scientific stories like the Big Bang. If you have a special interest in cosmology stories and the way they vary among different groups of people you may have thought of the stories about how Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva create the world, from the coils of the great snake...