In independent India, Macaulay's idea of the civilizing mission has been used by Dalitists, in particular by neoliberalist Chandra Bhan Prasad, as a " creative appropriation for self-empowerment ", based on the weltanschauung that Dalit folk are " empowered " by an English education as opposed to that in languages used traditionally ( Sanskrit and Persian ).

Also affiliated with the institution are four University Center programs: CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies through which undergraduates can earn individualized bachelor's degrees by completing courses at any of the CUNY colleges ; the CUNY School of Professional Studies and the associated Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies ; the recently established CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers a master's degree in journalism ; and Macaulay's Honor College.

Some books are almost entirely made up of information graphics, such as David Macaulay's The Way Things Work.

He also illustrated books relating to art and antiquity, of which the best known are Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome ( 1847 ); Milman's Horace, ( 1849 ); Kugler's Handbook of Italian Painting ( 1851 ); and Dr Smith's classical dictionaries.

In four opening chapters reminiscent of Macaulay's famous third chapter, Trevelyan surveys the state of England at the opening of the eighteenth century.

Macaulay's nephew, Sir George Trevelyan, Bt, wrote a best-selling " Life and Letters " of his famous uncle, which is still the best complete life of Macaulay.

He said this about Macaulay's determination to inspect physically the places mentioned in his History: " Much of the success of the famous third chapter of the History which may be said to have introduced the study of social history, and even ... local history, was due to the intense local knowledge acquired on the spot.

But his name was immortalized by Macaulay's famous onslaught in the Edinburgh Review for April 1830, " an annihilating so Jove-like that the victim automatically commands the spectator's rueful sympathy.

He also edited and translated John Milton's De doctrina christiana, which was found in the State Paper office in 1823, and formed the text of Macaulay's famous essay on Milton.

Macaulay's Minute formed the basis for the reforms introduced in the English Education Act of 1835.

Macaulay's position, slightly modified, became the basis of copyright law in the English-speaking world for many decades.

Macaulay's approach has been criticised by later historians for its one-sidedness and its complacency.

Although it is often dismissed as inaccurate, it is hard to pinpoint a passage where he is categorically in error ... his account of events has stood up remarkably well ... His interpretation of the Glorious Revolution also remains the essential starting point for any discussion of that episode ... What has not survived, or has become subdued, is Macaulay's confident belief in progress.

" Macaulay's ringing endorsement of Clive seems more controversial today, as some would argue that his own ambition and desire for personal gain set the tone for the administration of Bengal until the Permanent Settlement 30 years later.

By Macaulay's recommendation he began to write for the Edinburgh Review.

Cunliffe inspired the name for the character " Currant Bunliffe ", an archaeologist in David Macaulay's 1979 book, Motel of the Mysteries.

Macaulay's " licentious " Mrs. Pinchwife becomes in the 20th century a focus for moral concern: to critics such as Bonamy Dobrée, she is a tragic character, destined to have her naiveté cruelly taken advantage of by the " grim, nightmare figure " of Horner.

The basis for Blackmore's historical understanding is Macaulay's History of England and its analysis of the Monmouth rebellion.

Macaulay's critique in the Edinburgh Review was highly influential and established a way of thinking of Boswell and his Life of Johnson which was to prevail for many years.

Responsibility for the crime lay with the King's Scottish ministers, but King William was guilty of a " great breach of duty " ( Macaulay's words ) in shielding the Master of Stair from any punishment beyond dismissal from the Secretaryship of State.

Macartney had asked for and received permission from captain Herbie Collins to target Macaulay's bowling.

The premise of using woolly mammoths as a teaching tool for the principles of technology was inspired by David Macaulay's The Way Things Work ; Macaulay is credited as writer on the show.

George Richard Potter, Professor and Head of the Department of History at the University of Sheffield from 1931 to 1965, claimed " In an age of long letters ... Macaulay's hold their own with the best ".

The history of England, in Macaulay's view, was the story of the struggle of the English to win back their rights that were crushed by the " Norman yoke ".

More generally, the multivariate resultant or Macaulay's resultant of n homogeneous polynomials in n variables is a polynomial in their coefficients that vanishes when they have a common non-zero solution, or equivalently when the n hypersurfaces corresponding to them have a common zero in n – 1 dimensional projective space.

The resultant of n homogeneous polynomials in n variables or multivariate resultant, sometimes called Macaulay's resultant, is a generalization of the usual resultant introduced by Macaulay.

Speck claims that " Macaulay's reputation as an historian has never fully recovered from the condemnation it implicitly received in Herbert Butterfield's devastating attack on The Whig Interpretation of History.

His History of the Revolution in England, breaking off at the point where William of Orange is preparing to intervene in the affairs of England, is chiefly interesting because of Macaulay's admiring essay on it and its author.

In 1840 he wrote introductory notices to the work of Sheridan and to Edward Moxon's edition of the works of William Wycherley, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar, a work which furnished the occasion of Macaulay's essay on the Dramatists of the Restoration.

* Lord Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings ;

When Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, she drew on both Chapone and Macaulay's works.

* Thomas Macaulay's 1830 speech on the exclusion of Jews from parliament

Macaulay's cottage, ' Teraulay ' was then situated on an estate named Macaulay's Fields which extended from present day Yonge to Bay ( then known as Teraulay ) Streets, and from today's Albert Street ( then known as Jeremy Street ) to just south of Dundas Street.

He shared Macaulay's unfavourable verdict on Croker's efforts: " there is simply no edition of Boswell to which this last would seem preferable ", but argued that to judge Boswell as Macaulay had was to overlook the most important point ; that Boswell had had the great good sense to admire and attach himself to Dr Johnson ; an attachment which had little to offer materially.

Macaulay's quatrain on the institution of the rex Nemorensis states:

Macaulay's draft included a Section 377, a statute based on English criminal law which sought to prohibit " buggery " or sodomy, largely taken to mean anal sex between men.

In 1972 J. R. Western wrote that: " Despite its age and blemishes, Macaulay's History of England has still to be superseded by a full-scale modern history of the period ".

" In Lord Macaulay's history he talks of a score of plaids hanging in a row, but the remains of the Gallows-held in Perth Museum-suggest the maximum capacity was only six.

Macaulay's bluff and strenuous character, his rhetorical style, his unphilosophical conception of history, were entirely out of harmony with Morison's prepossessions.

He was the author of Mr Macaulay's Character of the Clergy ( 1849 ), a defence of the clergy of the 17th Century, which received the approval of Gladstone.

Potter noted that Macaulay has had many critics, some of whom put forward some salient points about the deficiency of Macaulay's History but added: " The severity and the minuteness of the criticism to which the History of England has been subjected is a measure of its permanent value.

Their first success was the publication of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, which was followed in 1841 by the issue of the first two volumes of his History of England, which after a few years had a sale of 40, 000 copies.

Macaulay's well-known comparison of him with a mole working below " in some foul, crooked labyrinth whenever a heap of dirt was flung up ," which perpetuates the spleen of Horace Walpole, perhaps exceeds the justice of the case ; but his character was rated very low by his contemporaries.

The tale is retold, with varying fidelity, in several works of Western literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer's " The Physician's Tale " in his Canterbury Tales, in Thomas Babington Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, and in the play Appius and Virginia by John Webster and Thomas Heywood, which includes the following lines:

In 1850, he published John Howard and the Prison World of Europe, which had a wide circulation, and about the same time he wrote a Life of Peace ( 1851 ), in answer to Macaulay's onslaught.

' Macaulay's cottage, which stood in Ditton Marsh, by the side of the high-road from Kingston to Esher, was called Greenwood Lodge.