Preparatory Task

'If you don't know History, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it's part of a tree'.

- Michael Crichton

Historical

• Of or concerning History or past events 'historical evidence'.
• Belonging to the past 'famous historical figures'. Synonyms: past, bygone, ancient, old, former, prior, from the past; literary of yore.
• Set in the past.

http://weheartit.com/entry/group/19306048

Dan Hillier - Tentacled Victorian Illustration

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/this-is-the-first-ever-photograph-of-a-human-and-how-the-scene-it-was-taken-in-looks-today-9841706.html

The first ever photograph of a human. Daguerre's image of Boulevard du Temple, Paris, in 1838. Man having his shoes shined in bottom left.

'The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it'.

- George Orwell

Social

• Relating to society or its organisation. Synonyms: communal, collective, public, civil.
• Needing companionship and therefore best suited to living in a community.
• An informal social gathering.

http://www.brwnpaperbag.com/page/9/

Fanny Blanc - Illustrations of adventure, intrigue and tragedy.

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/bangladesh-hindu-festival/

Photograph by Syed Hassan of a Hindu Fasting Festival in Bangladesh.

'Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master'.

- Christian Louis Lange

Technological

• Relating to or using Technology 'the quickening pace of technological age'.

http://www.brwnpaperbag.com/page/12/

Daniel Shaffer - Digital freelance Illustrator.

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/alma-array-yoder/

Photograph by Dave Yonder of ALMA. The world's largest and costliest ground-based telescope.

'Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being'.

- Thomas Carlyle

Cultural

• Relating to the ideas, customs and social behaviour of a society 'the cultural diversity of British society'. Synonyms: ethnic, racial, folk.
• Relating to the arts and to intellectual achievements 'a cultural festival'.

http://www.brwnpaperbag.com/page/8/

Essi Kimpimäki - depicts journeys and architecture of different lands.

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/wagenia-fishermen-maitre/

Photograph by Pascal Maitre of the congo river Wageria Fishermen.

'In Politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way'.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political

• Of or relating to the government or public affairs of a country 'a period of political and economic stability'. Synonyms: government, diplomatic.

http://thelastwordbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/young-adults-edge-chronicles-by-paul.html

Chris Riddell - Political cartoon for The Guardian.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/protestors-uk-gather-trafalgar-square-nhs-rally-1464326

Protestors in the UK gather in Trafalgar square in NHS rally - against coalition government's NHS policies.