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The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...system’ in a semi-domestic setting, with female spinners and male weavers manufacturing cloth. This image, titled ‘The art of stocking-frame-work-knitting’, comes from volume 7 of the Universal Magazine (August 1750). Many historians and sociologists believe that industrialisation in Britain between about 1760 and 1830 brought profound changes in household...
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...systems of electing MPs or local councillors. This means that election results are according to the number of votes that people place for a party, rather than an individual. Once the votes have been counted for the party, then the MPs or councillors are elected according to their agreed position on a party list. In the UK, at the time of writing, we have a ‘first past...
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...system of beliefs and practices that draw on theoretical assumptions and justifications. A research paradigm influences: what is considered problematic, i.e. what warrants researching; the types of questions that follow from this; the approach to generating data; the kind of data, and therefore the kind of methods, chosen; how the data is analysed. A world view, or...
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...system, with working parts. You are here and we are there and we are now here with you, is this clear? – Gawl horrop. Bawr. Abawrhannahanna! Faced with Mercurian truculence, the Earth man moves into pidgin: – I am the yuleeda. You see my hands, we carry no benner, we come in peace. The spaceways are all stretterhawn. – Glawn peacemen all horrahanna tantko! Tan come...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...system, the groups are a useful place for external stakeholders, including organisations and members of the public, to discuss issues of relevance with MSPs, share information, and raise awareness of issues, which can in turn impact the wider political agenda. There is more information on CPGs here. Giving your views to Committees Committees want to know the views of...
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...System of belief in and worship of a supernatural power or God. As I say, these possible definitions are not beyond challenge just because they might appear in a dictionary. As it happens, I made them up, just to give two starting-points for our discussion. So perhaps they can be improved upon...Introducing the philosophy of religion: Improving the definitions - Perhaps...
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...system of hot-water heating, which he said was better fitted to resist the cold of the Boston winters. He was not a very conversable man, but so much we screwed out of him, with the added fact that the tuition of that school was no longer free. It came to some five guineas a year, no great sum, but perhaps sufficient to keep the school, with the other influences, select...
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...systems around the world do not have geography with the status of a separate subject. Schools in England and Wales are different. Here, geography is a national curriculum subject (5–14 years) and the former Minister for Schools (Stephen Twigg) has asserted the subject's importance in several speeches in 2004. For example, he says: ‘The unique contribution of geography...