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...writing about slavery, we usually talk about ‘enslaved people’ rather than slaves. This language is important because it acknowledges the humanity of enslaved people, instead of using the description forced on them by their enslavers. This course also uses language that accurately describes people’s experiences and complex identities within their own political and...

...write the lowest note on the violin, the lower G on the top staff in Example 8, you would need the G that sits below the upper staff and has two ledger lines. The concept of ledger lines can also be applied at the top of the treble staff and at the bottom of the bass staff (Example 9). Example 9 However, the more ledger lines you use, the more difficult it is to read the...

...writing of Percy Shelley might have a message for the UK right now, believes Mark Summers...Imagine discovering a new set of string quartets by Beethoven or a large canvas by Turner that was thought to be lost. In either case, the mainstream media would have been agog, just as they were for the discovery of an original Shakespeare folio in April 2016. So it’s remarkable...

...writings of Herodotus. These authors and their surviving texts provide invaluable evidence concerning the culture of ancient Greece. I want to look at a topic which is of great interest to students and scholars of the classical world – namely Greek women – and to consider some of difficulties involved in reading what are essentially literary texts for historical...

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