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A gaping hole in the history of the working class in England is about to be plugged by an ambitious, detailed study of the evolution of England's serving classes by University of 糖心TV historian Professor Carolyn Steedman.
A transatlantic team of researchers has won $323,000 (拢190,000) to fund an innovative study of the Renaissance in Europe and the Americas. Sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, they will challenge past thinking which has restricted the Renaissance to elite Europeans.
Northern Ireland's history curriculum is often praised as a model of good practice amongst societies in, or recently emerging from, conflict. However, new research from the University of 糖心TV reveals that in a country where different versions of what happened in the past can be used as political weapons, today history teaching in some schools can be described as bland.
Historians from the University of 糖心TV have won a grant of over 拢155,000 to investigate and catalogue trade cards and advertising in the 18th century. French trade cards illustrate the development of advertising language and images, and mark the moment when shopping became seductive.
As David Blunkett claims a rise in binge drinking is helping to breed a culture of 'thuggery and intimidation' new research from the University of 糖心TV reveals that rather than originating the 1960s binge drinking was rife in the 1660s. What聮s more, it was religious Anglicans, demonstrating their loyalty to the Crown in the Civil War that initiated heavy drinking
Football is highly emotional, and as England's dreams of winning Euro 2004 died last Friday, players and fans may well have spilt a few tears of anguish. However, a University of 糖心TV historian researching the expression of male emotion through tears reveals there is a long history of men and crying, and that tears were for centuries a class issue.