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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...accounts and illustrations. At the same time, the Grand Tour brought its tourists into contact with new and exciting ‘foreign’ places, people and objects. These cultural encounters with the unfamiliar – which could be both pleasurable and dangerous – had to be managed, and the art that might be produced in response to the Grand Tour – from paintings to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...account so that their benefits and other payments can be paid into an account which is separate from the family bank account and can be accessed separately. It is worth thinking about getting independent financial advice too. You may want to use an independent financial advisor, and free advice is available from Citizen’s Advice Bureau and Welfare Rights. There are...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...account of carbon pricing by proxy through other measures, you know, some level of subsidy for onshore wind would still be justified. And I think the question with onshore wind is the question of local acceptability, which is obviously a legitimate issue, but there’s a lot of diversity around the country for example, Scotland is ploughing its way through with you know...
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Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts

...account. In 1977, Norwegian criminologist, Nils Christie wrote an article in the British Journal of Criminology entitled ‘Conflicts as Property’. In this article, Christie persuasively argues that when court systems, lawyers and even criminologists become involved in conflicts, they tend to act in ways that mean the voices of victims and those accused of crimes are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...account by Ratuva: GN (former colonial powers) and GS (former colonised territories) but, as he says, not that simple; ‘nuanced and complex on the ground’ (at around 6 mins). Interesting account of how power works at such global meetings. Points made by Huq – ‘GN holds the power’ (6 mins 32 seconds). Not just inequalities of impact of climate crisis but...
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Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...account. First, this summary has been stitched together from a wide range of sources. Versions of the Troy story don’t just appear in Homer: we have other literary sources, including fragments of rival epic poems about the war (one called the Cypria narrated its beginning, another called the Sack of Troy its end); a poem about the origins of the cosmos under Zeus’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...account other aspects of its story? So I think one thing that we're always going to have to keep in mind when it comes to restoration projects that deal with historically significant places is that history is ongoing. History is always marching forward and adding to the story of a particular space. So if we endeavour to restore a place to a particular historically...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...accounts of shamans, depicted by the Dutch statesman Nicolaes Witsen (1641–1717). The word ‘shaman’ comes from the Evenki word šaman or xaman, which can loosely be translated into ‘agitated’, ‘excited’ or ‘raised’ (Znamenski, 2007, p. viii). Evenki are a Tungusic-speaking people of North Asia, whose lands currently stretch across the nation states of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs