There are moments in business, just as there are moments in history and in society, when major change occurs, when rules change, markets change, demographics change.
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If the six brightest pupils were whisked away from the comprehensive where I am a pupil, Benton Park in Leeds, there would be no school newspaper, no debating society, no Oxbridge entrance and no history society.
He taught history at the college and helped establish Falkirk Local History Society in 1981.
They tell stories of history, politics, society and daily life and aspire to inform as they entertain.
Mr East, a retired RAF Squadron Leader and chairman of the East Family History Society who lives in Hertfordshire, said he used a variety of internet tools, including websites and the 1901 and 1911 censuses, to create a Wolstencroft family tree and trace relatives.
We all know what is needed -- a transition that is timely, new laws and a constitution that uphold the rule of law, political parties and a strong civil society, and, for the first time in Libyan history, free and fair elections.
The end-point of a particular society will depend upon its history and may be a constitutional monarchy like Jordan and Britain, or a full democracy.
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The local history society is currently collecting names of servicemen and women who have died in all wars to be included on the memorial.
Mr Williams has worked with Dennis Parsons at the Somerset Heritage Centre, Somerset Archaeological Natural History Society, which owns the collection, and leading insect fossil expert Andrew Ross, from the Museum of Scotland, to get the Taunton collection curated.
And with that he was off to his home for a nap, before returning to the museum that evening to escort the secretary of state and the cream of New York society through the history of American art.
History has shown time and again that peace, prosperity and stable civil society cannot flourish when threats and belligerency abound.
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But the Richard III Society believes the monarch has been unfairly maligned by history and in particular the Tudors who ousted him.
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The millions of manuscripts in these archives contain your history: valuable information about your families, culture, society - and a good few secrets too.
But no society in history has prospered without public investment, infrastructure, law and regulation.
The society, which believes the monarch has been unfairly maligned by history and in particular the Tudors who ousted him, backed the efforts to find Richard's remains, spearheaded by member and screenwriter Philippa Langley.
There is rather a depressing history of well-intentioned donations often doing nothing to alleviate society's problems, and sometimes even making matters worse.
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No government in French history is in a better position to make France a more equal society while making it and its economy more efficient.
According to these scholars, the deathlike grip guilds had held on innovation ended once enlightened individuals of the period educated society about the marvels of technology, and with this realisation, human history was changed forever.
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Mr Duncan follows these roots as they twist and turn through history, sometimes atrophying for centuries, only to be revived within a particular society, by the influence of visionary leaders and scientific discoveries from abroad.
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Miss de Paula Hanika, 19, an art history student at Magdalene College, said the all-male drinking society event was "clearly sexist, misogynistic and completely inappropriate as entertainment for 2013".
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And the experience of several countries suggests that, whatever educators and politicians might want, there is a limit to how far history lessons can diverge in their tone from society as a whole.
In the coming months and years, he and his supporters will continue pressing their case on all fronts and suffering setbacks on many, but knowing that all the time out in society, the tide of history is moving inexorably in.
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