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Learning Chinese	This website included Chinese idioms, popular words, dialogue, extensive reading and allegories etc.	Chinese intermediate, Chinese advanced, Adorno	view
The Domesday Book on-line	Describes the history of the Domesday Book, gives descritions of life at the time of its compilation, and provides information and links on...	Medieval, Local history, 11th century	view
WEBCAST	This website provides radio and TV. For English-speaking learners, these Chinese materials are designed to develop the learners' ability to listen...	Chinese radio, Chinese TV	view
'No one can serve two masters’:1 Female recusancy and rebellion during the Elizabethan period by Maria Neary	In its literal sense ‘recusant’ means a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation. In its...	Recusant	view
'Shades Of Meaning': The Significance Of Hair Colour In Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862) And Rossetti's Lady Lilith (1866–68, Altered 1872–73), Jessica Lenihan	In a culture obsessed with physiognomy, where the Victorian female body was a canvas of symbols to be read, the portrayal of hair – and...	Social history, Gender, Sexuality, 19th century	view
1. Introduction	Introduction to Vides Volume 6 - 2018. ...		view
A border to the unknown: folk ritual and interpretations of astrological phenomena in Edmond Halley’s A Description of the Passage of the Shadow of the Moon over England (1723) and James Catnach’s almanac, The Prophetic Messenger (1833), Anya Hancock	Halley’s widely circulated broadside presents one of the earliest rational analyses of a solar eclipse. In it, the Enlightenment scientist...	Enlightenment, Astrology	view
A Chapel, a Novel, and the Word of God. Virginia Brookes	This essay attempts to portray two artefacts, the Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in Oxford, and the novel Adam Bede by George Eliot. These two...		view
A chivalric knight and deep sea dredging; or, ‘the everlasting thunder of the deep’ by Nicholas Pritchard	For Britons in the mid- to late nineteenth century the deep sea was starting to take a hold on the imagination. The successful...	Victorian	view
A comparative study of Lady Hertford’s grotto at Marlborough and William Kent’s illustration of Spring in James Thomson's The Seasons. Richard D A Lamont	‘Poetry, Painting and Gardening, or the Science of Landscape, will forever by men of taste be deemed Three Sisters, or the Three Graces who dress...	History	view

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