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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...de seigle, wholemeal bread, pain complet, seeded bread, pain aux céréales and many regional specialities. French Dans la plupart des familles françaises, on achète son pain tous les jours. La baguette traditionnelle est bien meilleure lorsqu’elle est fraîche, ou même encore chaude, et c’est pour cette raison que les Français vont à la boulangerie de leur...
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How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?
Science, Maths & Technology

How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?

...class and the working class. But this referendum was about something different. With immigration featuring as one of the central issues, it was a division between “social liberals” and “social conservatives”. The former tend to be comfortable with the diversity that comes with immigration, while the latter prefer a society in which people share the same customs...
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Lesbianism and the criminal law of England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Lesbianism and the criminal law of England and Wales

...class and foreign women was treated as an open secret between men: the law kept silent about it because those ruling-class men did not want respectable women – their wives and daughters – to find out. In fact, there had been prosecutions of women for lesbian relationships since at least the end of the seventeenth century. In the eighteenth century, there was a small...
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Getting started with Spanish 3
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Getting started with Spanish 3

...favor? With Ester García, please? TO ASK WHO IS CALLING OR SAY WHO IS SPEAKING: ¿De parte de quién? Who is calling? ¿Con quién hablo? Who am I speaking to? Soy Matilde Fernández. It’s Matilde Fernández. Habla Matilde Fernández (LAm). Matilde Fernández speaking. TO PUT PEOPLE THROUGH: Le pongo en seguida. I’m putting you through right away. Un momento, le paso. One moment, I’m putting you through. Activity 1 ......
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...classes who came of age during or just after the First World War and enjoyed a bohemian and carefree lifestyle), who subsequently became deeply embroiled in the political polarisations of the 1930s. One sister, Diana, eloped with and married Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, at the home of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, while another,...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...de rigueur for all official business, with words like judge, jury, evidence, and justice coming in and giving John Grisham’s career a kick start. Latin was still used ad nauseum in church, but the common man spoke English, able to communicate only by speaking more slowly and loudly until the others understood him. Words like ‘cow’, ‘sheep’ and ‘swine’ come...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time
Society, Politics & Law

Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time

...class, nation and political geography came together to produce a no vote. You go on to argue, however, that the results point to a future in which a majority will vote yes to an independent Scotland. Gerry Mooney: Well, as is well known, Joanna, that the overwhelming decision of the Scottish people was a no vote at this particular point. But the first thing to sort of...
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Coping with Depression
Society, Politics & Law

Coping with Depression

...classed as ‘anxiety’ and ‘depression’ if they are diagnosed) are the most common ‘mental disorders’ in Britain that people seek counselling for. This collection of videos looks at what can happen when people are overwhelmed by such profound feelings of sadness that they can’t carry on with their everyday lives. Fry, along with Trisha Goddard and engineer Jim...
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Video 38 mins