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...classes, Smith lectured on “moral philosophy”, which in eighteenth-century Scotland was a broad humanities subject including topics as varied as morals, politics, religion, economics, jurisprudence and history. He reworked some of these lectures into a successful book (The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759), which turned him into a household name. This allowed him to...

...class distinctions of upper-class mannerisms; a high-stepping, mincing walk and an arm-in-arm glide. This new musical genre was personified by the arrival in Wales of the all-Black production In Dahomey, reaching Swansea’s Grand Theatre in 1905 which caused a sensation. The show included a cakewalk competition with four couples chosen each night to compete for the...

...de France were held in Munster and Leinster, partly to mark the bicentenary of the 1798 Rebellion. One of the stages of the 1998 Tour was routed through Carrick-on-Suir, the home town of Sean Kelly, in recognition of that rider's achievements on the international racing stage in the 1980s, when, for several years, he was ranked as the world's best cyclist. The 1980s also...

...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 Denis Diderot (1713–84,...