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Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...writing room. Like many male contemporaries, Murdoch is portrayed without any sign of her occupation, but is shown as a woman of culture – note the paintings, statue and books.] (By permission of the British Library, shelfmark: 010855.cc.8) © By permission of the British Library, shelfmark: 010855.cc.8 Figure 3 Portrait of Mary Murdoch in her writing room. Like many...
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...writing in 1860, the impetus to research the Renaissance was a conviction of its status as ‘a civilisation which is the mother of our own’. 2 Contemporary historians, by contrast, are inclined to explore differences between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and our own times. 3 Not only is the map of the societies and cultures that produced Renaissance art...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence . The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: the Battle of Adwa painting: The British Museum...
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...writings of scholars from ancient Greece and Rome and a new emphasis on the use of observation as the basis of knowledge. This series of developments, called the Renaissance, in turn led to new ideas such as the model of the solar system with the sun at the centre while the planets revolved around it, proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). The spread of these new...
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Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. Course image: marchmeena29/iStockphoto.com Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: 1. Join over 200,000 students currently studying with The...
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...writing). In other countries things may be slightly different. For example, in the Netherlands, all types of business must register with the Chamber of Commerce. Registration with the Chamber of Commerce will automatically result in registration for income tax and VAT purposes as well. In the eyes of the law, the sole trader as a person and as a business are one and the...
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figure 1: JohnnyGreig/Getty Images Figure 2: David Fenton/Getty Images...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: Richard Cassan in Flickr made available under Creative Commons...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr