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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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British influence in India commences in earnest at the start of the 17th Century with the entry of the East India Company and gains a stranglehold in the 18th Century when the British parliament begins to regulate territories under company control.
The revivals of the 17th and 18th centuries produced social reforms that led to the abolition of slavery and the improvement of conditions for women and children.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Most are rustic 17th or 18th Century Lake District cottages or lovely barn conversions, where antiquity and modern comforts have been beautifully combined.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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17th Century French painting represented by highly spiritual works by Linard and panoramic landscapes by Millet are representative of 18th century French art.
The progressive enclosure of the common lands of the 17th and 18th centuries and the Highland clearances in Scotland marked in a most dramatic way the alienation of the people from what remained of the right to use the resources of the land.
They are direct descendants of the ancient Mayan people and are believed to have arrived in the region in the 17th or 18th Century to escape colonial domination.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Thus, 17th and 18th century Kun Music Drama achieved a literary richness beyond that of its predecessors, but in its greatest works also conveyed a sense of despair and irrevocable loss indicative of the age.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Scots is Displaced Closer political ties with England during the 17th century led first to the emergence of an anglicised from of Scots and eventually to a distinction between an English-speaking nobility and a Scots-speaking population by the end of the 18th century.
The Spanish Viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru supported a thriving choral liturgy in the 17th and 18th centuries that produced brilliant works by European and Native American composers.
This process was perfected by Dutch and German craftsmen and became popular in England from the middle of the 17th Century reaching its height during the reign of William and Mary throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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During the 18th Century the application of scientific theory based upon observation and experiment expanded rapidly from its 17th Century beginnings.
Because many scholarly journals published in the 17th and 18th centuries were published by scholarly societies, this is a good index to the journal literature of that period.
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