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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...English culture, a nice town, it stopped it being a place like Bath or Chester, or Stratford or even Leamington just down the road. [Coventry [Image: AmandaBHSlater under CC-BY-SA licence]] Coventry [Image: AmandaBHSlater under CC-BY-SA licence] In the end it’s the nice towns that have worked best economically, the ones without an industrial heritage. Then in 1973 even...
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What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...English civil war story, or you can fail it on just a gentle, unconvincingness, or a cowardice, just pulling back from things you can’t be bothered to research but you can’t find out, which just makes it less believable. But I think John Mullan in How Novels Work makes a very interesting point about this which is that in a way if you do pile in the bibliographies the,...
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The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...English chemist, William Henry Perkin. In 1856, 18-year-old Perkin was experimenting in his home laboratory, trying to synthesise the anti-malarial drug quinine (found nowadays in tonic water). In an experiment with a compound called aniline, one of the simplest chemical components of coal tar,* he obtained a black precipitate. On testing its solubility, he
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...English schools) started by conducting an audit to determine the opportunities currently on offer for children to read for pleasure and the space made available to talk about their choices with one another and with teachers. Most found that adults were the ones controlling the reading on offer to children. In particular, talk about texts was confined to the official...
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‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus
History & The Arts

‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus

...English. It can suggest ‘word’, ‘argument’ or an ‘account’ (as in: ‘In the beginning was the word [logos]’, John 1.1). 'Logos' derives from the verb 'legein', ‘to speak’, and implies ‘that which was said’. It seems to be in this sense that Herodotus uses it. He often prefaces the ‘logoi’ he relates with ‘the Athenians say’, or ‘the...
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...English working classes begins in the second half of the eighteenth century with the invention of the steam engine and of machines for spinning and weaving cotton. It is well known that these inventions gave the impetus to the genesis of an industrial revolution.” He borrowed the full phrase “industrial revolution” from continental economic discourse; but the...
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Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...English text of Engels' Condition of the Working Class in England , 1845. To remedy what Engels described as ‘a mass of helplessness and misery’, London County Council cleared the slum and built Arnold Circus. Unfortunately, the original slum inhabitants could not afford the rents of these first council houses so they were forced into new slums further to the east....
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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...English industrial revolution’ published in the journal Past and Present David Cannadine demonstrated how historical accounts of the industrial revolution have been influenced by the political, social and economic climate of the time in which the historian was writing rather than that of the time being studied. In most cases this involves a relationship between the way...
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