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...history?" There are a lot of answers to this, but one important reason is that people are already talking about history, and sometimes, they have got it seriously wrong. One example of this is the widespread ignorance of the Bengal famine. For me, the 'killer facts' about the Bengal famine are straightforward. In 1941, when the Battle of the Atlantic was at its height,...

...come to achieving the aims of its leaders?...Ireland has a long and troubled past. Not always on the best of terms with its British neighbour, armed struggle has been a recurring feature in the island's history. But how close did a group of republicans come to independence from the United Kingdom? [What was the Easter Rising? - The arts past and present (3/6)] Transcript...

...history, but how do we evaluate the figure of the artist? This free course, Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael, takes the life of Raphael as a case study. You will examine sixteenth-century sources to explore the creation of artistic authorship in the early modern era. The course explores past and current approaches to the artist in terms of authorship, identity...