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Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...Geography", dated some time in the eighteenth century. How this ponderous work ever came to be out on the pampas, over six thousand miles from the land of its origin, is a thing to wonder at. I remember that the Stonehenge plate greatly impressed me and that I sacrilegiously cut it out of the book so as to have it! Now we know, our reason tells us continually, that the...
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Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...Geography at Texas Christian University, explains how. Generally, there are several elements of the population pyramid we might look for: - how steeply are the sides of the pyramid angled at the top of the pyramid? That is, at what rate are older members of the population dying? - is there a “belt” - that is, is the pyramid narrower at the bottom, as well as the top,...
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Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...geography and history, had been added. Women and girls sometimes received instruction in sewing or knitting as well. In terms of reading, writing and arithmetic there was increasingly little difference between what men and women, adults and children were taught, at least officially (Crone, 2022, ch.4). In its essentials, the curriculum of the prison school largely...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...Geography, Space and Politics in the Early Roman Empire, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press. Grant, M. (trans.) (1996) Tacitus: the Annals of Imperial Rome, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books. (First published 1956. Revised edition 1971. Revised with new bibliography 1989. Reprinted with revised bibliography 1996.) Wells, C. (1992) The Roman Empire (2nd edn; first...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...geography school books but had dominated every aspect of my life in Fiji … Now, I felt as if the Empire's stepchild had come ‘home’, even though I had only arrived to study on a Reuter's fellowship at Oxford. Although Fiji had shrugged off British colonial rule in 1970, … The Queen remained the constitutional head of Fiji … and Her Majesty continued to stare in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...geography, the archaeology, so everything that makes them so unique, and then I will drop in the conservation messages and the wildlife messages within those films, because I know that I’ll be able to get a higher number of viewers. So I think for me the future is more adventure-based I suppose you could say, and then I’ll get the message in through that. Because I...
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Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. The C-change in GEES project was funded by HEFCE as part of the JISC/HE Academy UKOER programme and coordinated by the GEES Subject Centre. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...geographies of empire to consider how mapping created imperial worlds. Session 2 Power will introduce you to different forms of power - military, ideological and cultural - and how they were exercised in relation to the establishment, justification, and management of empire. Session 3 Resistance will introduce you to different forms of resistance – military, everyday,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs