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Social History
History, Social CRISES BIBLIOGRAPHY Social history emerged as a discipline over the course of about twenty years at the conjunction of two seemingly contradictory schools of historical writing: English social history and the French Annales school. Defined by George Macaulay Trevelyan... Read more |
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Antiquity
18. Antiquity See also 190. GREECE and GREEKS ; 207. HISTORY . antediluvian a person who lived before the Flood. Read more |
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oral history
oral history compilation of historical data through interviews, usually tape-recorded and sometimes videotaped, with participants in, or observers of, significant events or times. Primitive societies have long relied on oral tradition to preserve a record of the past in the absence of written... Read more |
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Berossus
Berossus a priest at Babylon in the 3rd century bc who wrote a history of Babylon which transmitted Babylonian history and astronomy to the Greek world.... Read more |
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Cornelis Petrus Tiele
Cornelis Petrus Tiele , 1830-1902, Dutch theologian and author of a number of valuable works on the history of religion. Important is his Outlines of the History of Religion (1876, tr. 1877).... Read more |
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Paul the Deacon
Paul the Deacon c.725-799?, Lombard historian. He received a good education, probably at Pavia, and he learned Latin thoroughly and some Greek. He lived at Monte Cassino and at Charlemagne's court. His first work was a continuation of the Roman history of Eutropius through Justinian. He also wrote... Read more |
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Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky
KLYUCHEVSKY, VASILY OSIPOVICH (1841–1911), celebrated Russian historian. Vasily Klyuchevsky was born to the family of a priest of Penza province. In 1865 he graduated from the Moscow University (Historical-Philological Department). In 1872 he earned a master's degree and in 1882 a... Read more |
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American Museum of Natural History (New York New York)
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY in New York City is the largest natural history museum in the world. It displays more than 30 million specimens from all branches of natural history along with a wealth of anthropological artifacts in a vast complex of... Read more |
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Natural history
NATURAL HISTORY NATURAL HISTORY. Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492 transformed natural history perhaps more than any it did other early modern science. The ensuing development of European maritime empires of trade and commerce opened new routes for the acquisition of specimens,... Read more |
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Daniel Neal
Neal, Daniel (1678–1743), English Nonconformist clergyman and historian, author of a History of New England …to …1700 (2 vols., 1720), which, though it drew strongly on Cotton Mather's work, was hostile to his family and their part in the witchcraft trials. Neal's History of... Read more |
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
...to be translated into English was The Family Moscat (1950), which was followed...1970). Singer's work portrays with a colourful intensity and much realistic detail the...Polish Jews of many periods of Polish history, illuminated by hints of the mystic and... |
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Mountbatten, Admiral Lord Louis
...because of his German origins. In 1917 the family name was anglicized and his father became...September, but his sea career was short, colourful, and unsuccessful. His exploits aboard Kelly brought...acting admiral—the youngest in the history of the Royal Navy—and appointed ... |
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Colourful history at Widdrington.
...back the clock to put on a colourful display. An exhibition...Widdrington showing the history of places in Northumberland...students, who were doing the history of Widdrington and the school, went round friends and family and came back with some... |
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Colourful history of a custom-built townhouse; property mail.
...pretty B-listed townhouse with a very colourful past, writes Jenny Shields. Built in...another chapter in the house's long history began when it became home to distinguished...days, The Custom House is a substantial family home on three floors. The current owners... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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A tale of bounce and bust: the colourful history of rubber
...witnessed this had learnt their history lesson. As their fingers burnt...Jackson intertwines with the history of rubber in this excellent...adventurer, Wickham persuaded his family to come to the Amazon in his...separate ways. Wickham had a colourful life, ... |
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Property Colourful history of Patshull Hall.
...fascinating facts concerning its long, colourful social history and some notable former occupants...house was designed for the Astley family by the eminent Sir James Gibbs...furnished with paintings of the family and important visitors to Patshull... |
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Hunterian snaps up rare Rubens sketch which comes with a colourful history
...Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in 1958. It has a colourful history - Sir Archibald bought the sketch in a sale of Lord...held back from a studio sale in case an artist in his family would want to use them at a later date. One drawing... |
 "Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)")
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It has survived gunfire, famine, corporate shenanigans, political skulduggery...
...and even the wit and repartee of Eamon Dunphy. In its colourful history the Shelbourne Hotel has been the haunt of taoisigh...star, a drunken politician or a member of the Guinness family. The born-again Irishman Peter O'Toole used to... |
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Converted landmark windmill is put up for sale; HOME HAS CIRCULAR SITTING...
...converted into a six-storey luxury family home 30 years ago, is the tallest...century, the mill has enjoyed a colourful history. In its hey-day, the mill was...who converted it into the unusual family home it is today. The present... |
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THE Celtic Visitor Centre is situated at Celtic Park, one of the biggest...
...to learn all about the colourful history and heritage of Celtic...taking a trip through the history of the club through the...from individuals to family groups and coach tours...Concessions Pounds 5.50, Family Ticket Pounds 20 (two... |
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Colourful history of Household Cavalry.(News)
...British Army and have had close associations with the Royal Family in the past. James Hewitt, former lover of the late Diana...member of the Life Guards. Each year the Cavalrymen provide the colourful Sovereign's Escort for the monarch's Trooping the Colour... |
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New museum exhibition to look at colourful history of quilting
Two hundred colourful quilts, representing 170 years of the craft of patchwork and quilting...together with her wedding dress, which will also be shown, with her family Bible." Fourteen of the quilts together make up a panoramic view of... |
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