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Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...families, with the elderly often living with their adult children. [A tamil family] Figure 3 Three generations of a Tamil family – the women are wearing saris (saylay, in Tamil), while the patriarch is wearing a vertti, and the young girl in the front is wearing a pavaadai. Activity 1 Select the answer for Question 1a here True or false. Tamil is an official language...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...family relationships and our property. It applies at the bottom of the ocean and in space. It regulates the world of sport, science, employment, business, political liberty, education, health services – everything, in fact, from neighbour disputes to war. The law in the United Kingdom has evolved over a long period. It has, over the centuries, successfully adapted...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...history is a history of bodies. Bodies attend parliaments and move to different regions; it is in human brains that ideas are conceived and decisions are made; it is human limbs that embrace friends and fight enemies. Moreover, history is shaped by bodily experience: lives of important people have been cut short by illnesses; large groups of migrants have decided to stay...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Is it true that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to eat junk food?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is it true that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to eat junk food?

...family living under the U.S. poverty line, which for a family of two is a bit above $16,000, or about $44 per day. It is doubtful a poor family of two would be able to regularly spend more than a third of its daily income eating fast food. The lure of fast food If politicians really want to improve the health of the poor, limiting fast-food restaurants in low-income...
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Article 5 mins
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Germany
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Germany

...families buy their bread in one of many bakeries found on German high streets, either independent or part of local chains such as Dat Backhus or Nur Hier in Hamburg. Rye bread is the most popular. It can be made of pure rye flour or with mixed flours, with or without grains and seeds. On a Sunday afternoon it's quite typical to sit with friends and family members for...
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Activity 10 mins
Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...history of the Paralympics hasn't always been smooth The University Of Kent's Julie Anderson reviews Steve Bailey's Athlete First: A History of the Paralympic Movement for Reviews In History, and discovers a tale of a movement that hasn't always progressed smoothly: As the embryonic Paralympic movement develops it becomes more administratively organised and Bailey follows...
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Video 5 mins
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...history and storytelling could support us to better understand the way that migration shapes and makes our communities and places. That is why in a research project on ‘Migration Making Places, Making People: New Narratives of Inclusion’ together with the University of Oxford, we have worked with the Migration Museum Project and Counterpoints Arts, through to civil...
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Article 15 mins
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...history of art as well as well as introducing some spectacular images by less familiar artists. The works discussed range chronologically from the first century AD to the late nineteenth century and extend geographically from Britain and France to Russia and Japan. In analysing them, the films address some of the major developments in the history of art, from the revival...
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Video 15 mins