Sentence examples for influential history from inspiring English sources

And with it, an acknowledgement of something long forgotten: that contrary to popular myth, Britain has a rich and internationally influential history of urban planning.

In the influential "History of Richard III," by Thomas More, written around 1516, Richard is "little of stature, ill featured of limbs, crook backed, his left shoulder much higher than his right".

Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World by Gregory Woods (Yale) An inquiry into how homosexuality has shaped western culture, from the author of an influential history of gay literature.

As he demonstrated in his influential history of African literary traditions, The Breast of the Earth (1975), his research interests were focused on the links between African vernacular traditions and the written literature emerging from the continent.

An archive exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London is about to bring to light the little known yet hugely influential history of Imprint 93 and so reveal another side to British art in the 1990s.

First up is Carmen Reinhart, a fellow at the Institute, who co-wrote a highly influential history of financial crises titled "This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly".

Superstition has been deeply influential in history.

This period was chosen by the English historian Edward Gibbon as the beginning of his monumental and influential work History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776 88).

Macfarlane performs for mountains the service Francis Spufford did for the polar regions in his influential cultural history, I May be Some Time.

Rickert's work on this issue builds upon Windelband's influential paper History and Natural Science (Windelband 1980, 169 185).

Two distinctive aspects of Paul's moral teachings have been very influential in the history of Christianity and thus in the history of the Western world.