7 The leisured class, 1840 –1970 For the upper and upper-middle classes of Victorian Britain time was structured more by leisure than by work. As Thomas Malthus explained in 1820, 'The great laws of nature have provided for the leisure of a certain portion of society'.1 Duties and obliga...
It occurred to me that for many of us over the last months life may not have changed all that much. In laterlife, often after retirement, adaptation to a different way of life has always been important health and wellbeing.It has often been thrust upon us and surprises us even when exp...
By the time he died, he had been knighted by the Swedish monarch and become a household name among scientists and writers throughout Britain and Europe. In 1750s London he was a celebrity, but he was also widely vilified. Hill, an important writer of urban space, also helped define ...
Yes, he was one of the "Founding Fathers," the only one who put his name to all three of the founding documents of the United States: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, and the Constitution under which we still live. He may have become famous for ...
they had had little to do with the country in the past and at first lacked the background knowledge to make their own assessment of United States interests there. Washington, however, came to share Britain's assessment that Iran occupied an important strategic position and that the Shah was ...
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Maybe your idea of a jubilee is a celebration, much like Britain’s in 2022 when they honored Queen Elizabeth’s unprecedented seventy years of service to the Crown. Not so the Catholics. They define a jubilee – every 25 or 50 years – as a “marked opportunity for the remission of ...
(approximately 1,400 kilometres). Most people live in towns and cities but much of Britain is still countryside.4.1.2Cities of the UK1. London2. Birmingham3. Liverpool4. Leeds5. Sheffield6. Bristol7. Manchester8. Bradford9. Newcastle Upon ...
This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of feminini...
A.soldiers' clothes in Britain B.the history of Scotland C.a special kind of skirt D.Scottish families 2.Which of the following is true according to the passage? A.The English soldiers were the first to wear kilts. B.It was hard then to tell the Scottish soldiers from the English ones...