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...de Janeiro’, includes references to Poseidon, Hermes, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Hercules, Artemis, Hephaestus and Zeus; and modern programmes such as the Rio 2016 Culture Festival remind us of Classical associations between sport, poetry, music, and prose composition. This course highlights the similarities and differences between our modern Games and the Ancient...

...adults allowed to vote? Was the economy more rural than industrial? Was the country at war? Who had the most power, the Prime Minister or the monarch? Did British people own slaves? Were criminals more likely to be flogged, transported, executed or sent to prison? Could most people read or write? Discussion Keep these notes about your impressions of life in 1800. You...

...de couleur) to describe others: this reflects the different contemporary social and political experiences of the people they discuss. In the session on human ‘zoos’, Dr Suki Haider describes Sarah Baartman as Khoikhoi – a term to describe one of the Khoe-speaking polities in South Africa, and much more accurate than the pejorative colonial designation of...

...adults and two children. These expectations fit with what we know about demographic patterns in Europe during the interwar years. Discussion Also of note in this article is Steinicke’s description of the tortuous process by which the Müller family obtained their modern apartment. Although around 2.5 million modern apartments such as these were constructed during the...