Yet how much of the history curriculum covers these core parts of our social history?
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The refurbished Matthew Steele Court will also form the focal point of a new social history initiative.
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In his introduction he explains how his research sheds a useful new light on world social history.
As the hero of this erudite and engaging work of social history, Reich is a fascinating subject.
She said a continuing archaeological dig also hoped to discover more about the social history of the site.
They prefer social history, generally of the sort that describes the suffering of women, racial minorities, the poor.
West German social history is full of narratives about German suffering at the hands of the Nazis and the allied forces.
For a social history of Australia in the 60s and 70s, I always look out for books by the journalist Craig McGregor.
In America more effort has gone into relating the Koran to what is known from other sources about political and social history.
But the rewards of this book come when Mr Whalley ventures further than his two feet into literature, science and social history.
Pupils are far more likely to study the Weimar Republic, the Russian Revolution, or the politics (but not social history) of the Tudors.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | How about some British history?
Mr Shannon alleged his place on the year-long economic and social history course was withdrawn due to the "arbitrary figure" the college had set.
"They were designated primarily for their cultural and social history, " said Tara Kelly, executive director of the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts.
Eels is an excellent read, part natural history, part social history.
But academics researching the social history of Britain in the second half of the 20th century may perhaps grant him the immortality of a footnote.
A., from a brilliantly constructed screenplay by Eric Roth, is a sombre but fascinating social history of the agency and a meditation on the themes of trust and betrayal.
William Manchester's "The Glory and the Dream, " a social history of midcentury America, made a big impression on him, as did several lesser-known movies from the 1950s and '60s.
Dr Heather Shore, a social history expert at Leeds Metropolitan University, describes the period of the 1830s and 1840s as one in which a great deal of "big society"-type activity was undertaken.
Radio presenter Alan Dein, who conducted many of the interviews, said the graveyard contains "a great social history of Hampstead and the nation" with "so many intriguing people buried there".
She points to one of her successors in the social history department who, thanks to pre-crash funding, has been able to work with young people and those with mental health problems.
The debate focused on an amendment that would place a duty on courts to ask for a social history on an offender from the probation service when requesting a pre-sentence report.
In telling the story of musical performance, the Cambridge work offers a kind of social history as well, describing private and communal music-making and the men and women who gathered to hear it.
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"They enabled poor and working-class Americans to gain access to the good life, " said Jeff Wiltse, a history professor at the University of Montana and author of a social history of swimming pools.
Oscar Handlin in Social History of America at Harvard University in the 1950s that the vitality of our nation was the stream of immigrants in the 19th century looking for opportunity, religious freedom, political equality.
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While Mr. Cave is widely considered to be one of very few people who could write a definitive architectural and social history of New York real estate, that is one volume we are unlikely to enjoy soon.
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The managing director of Ancestry.co.uk, Simon Harper, said the phone books would help people researching "late Victorian, 20th century family or social history as they provide solid evidence of where people lived during any given time in this period".
Setting aside the farmers' vaunted place in American politics and social history (and I'm biased here--my father grew up on a farm and I spent my fair share of time on one), this has been a very good trend for America, and the world.
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Hugh Cunningham, professor of social history at the University of Kent, argues that while Dickens "helped create a climate of opinion", he did not articulate a "coherent doctrine" of how society should be reformed - and that the author was at times as much in danger of being seen as a conservative as a radical.
Many of us enjoy looking through our social network history to reflect on shared memories, and Path is helping users do just that with its latest 2.9 update.
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