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Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...family – that’s bound to bring community together anywhere in the world. Butetown Carnival is about celebrating the different cultures of our community, but, at the same time, we’re fighting against the siloes that have been created around us – and it’s working. Carnival has this fire, and you can’t take that away from us. Bringing Butetown together We keep...
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Article 10 mins
Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...family life and the home and were not assumed to require the same rights as men. These were characteristic and widely shared views of Locke’s time and very rarely questioned. But if Locke was in favour of ‘life, liberty and estate’, what about the rights of those who had been captured and enslaved by European slave-trading companies and armies? Didn’t the...
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Article 10 mins
Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline
History & The Arts

Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline

...families are both of poor peasant backgrounds. His father, Alois, regarded as strict and distant, becomes a customs official and expects Adolf to follow a career into the civil service. Hitler’s mother, Klara, is of a more compassionate nature, adoring and indulging her son. At the age of six Adolf attends school and, while clearly intelligent, he is uninterested in...
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Article 15 mins
Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...Family snapshots, posed photos, cine film and even home videos provide a wealth of primary source material for historians. In recent years a number of important TV documentaries have drawn heavily upon amateur film and photographic archives. Among these are The British Empire in Colour (Carlton), Britain at War in Colour (Carlton) and Ken Burns’ magnificent trilogy The...
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Article 15 mins
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...family – the Carbons – who live in a rich country, like the USA. [MUSIC PLAYING] SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH We know that human activity on a large scale, massive deforestation, the near universal use of fossil fuels is changing the climate. But can anything that you or I do individually, can that have an effect? Well, over half the carbon dioxide produced by mankind comes...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...family relationships are, does that mean that I should live somewhere else? Should I live with my dad? Should I live with my mum? Esther I wonder if we can start looking at questions of diversity. What issues were raised for you when looking at that programme, and obviously the children varied, differed from one another in a lot of different ways. Were there particular...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...families where there are children on the child protection register, working alongside social workers who don’t have time for frequent visits to all homes of children on ‘at risk’ register. ‘I wasn’t happy with what was going on at my son’s school, so I decided to try and make things change.’ Answer He became a school governor. This was a serious commitment,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...family. It is unpaid and undertaken freely and by choice’ (Department for Communities, 2019). Data from the Northern Ireland Department for Communities and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency highlight that volunteering remains relatively high in Northern Ireland. Key headline figures from 2018/2019 indicate that: The proportion of the adult population...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs