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The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...education to elevate English literature from the 1920s – to impose a canon of Oxbridge approved ‘classics’ on the captive audiences in schools and universities. It is no accident that ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ (the pen-name of C.M. Grieve) began a crusade on behalf of Scottish culture at just that time, nor that one of his chosen platforms was the Scottish Educational...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...education, art, music, literature, political theory, science, the Enlightenment. Religious reform, consolidation and renewal: the Reformation, religious wars, Protestant churches, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, witchcraft, church and state. Economics and technology: population growth, agriculture, manufacturing, banking, capitalism, industry, urban life, poverty. Europe in...
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...educational books, children’s fiction and Sunday reading. Her commentary on them captures the appeal of these books for the child reader, and her autobiography is a good indicator of the attraction these books held for children of her class and generation. The inclusion of more than forty of her documented reading experiences in the UK RED site allows us to search them...
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...education in Britain – specifically as a result of the 1870 Education Act – also created a growing new market of young readers at that time. Later in the course you will learn more about some of the famous golden age illustrators such as Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, John Tenniel, Arthur Rackham and Kate Greenaway. However, in the next section we focus on the way...
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...educated the people of the region about the seriousness of the waste. From the effects of the nuclear bomb and the atomic bomb, and despite all this, we started messaging France to ask for their rights to retire, but the French were ducking and every time they argued something, for example, come to France and every lawyer or some personally. And he has various diseases...
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...educational, forensic etc), may be offered by a university or a different training body. In either case, it will be important to check that the course does lead to a practitioner qualification, if that is what you are seeking. For practitioner psychology programmes this means a training pathway accredited by the British Psychological Society and approved by the Health and...
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...education, take criminals and rehabilitate them, which was the goal – those are admirable goals, but they’re very hard goals. And it’s very hard to see, in a sort of measured period of time, how much progress you’re making. But if your goal is to build a prison, fill it with people and keep ‘em in there, that’s something government can do rather well. We’ve...
Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...educational reasons; however, a large number also came as part of a ‘pilgrimage’. Interestingly, this response came, almost without exception, from international visitors. Well it was this good reputation about its great history, about the Highlands. We … wanted to see the battle, the battlefield. We've been told it's a very important place for the Scottish people....
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs