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‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...health hellhole. They further told us that the city's only other shelter – the convention center – was also descending into chaos and squalor, and that the police weren't allowing anyone else in. Quite naturally, we asked, ‘If we can't go to the only two shelters in the city, what was our alternative?’ The guards told us that this was our problem – and no, they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...public first get to find out about this and all the other code-breaking operations here at Bletchley? Michael Kushner A book was written by Group Captain Fred Winterbotham about Bletchley Park. He worked in what we call Hut 3. Now Fred Winterbotham wrote this book in 1974 and he says that the actions of Bletchley Park was a cog in the wheel of victory: an important cog...
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On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...public audience. Almost eleven years later, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting the world’s first regular high-definition television service, on the 2nd of November 1936. Television broadcasts were suspended with the outbreak ofthe Second World War. When they resumed in 1946, television started to become very successful, especially in Britain...
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Article 15 mins
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...public to crowdsource metadata into our crown jewels, our archive, is a fascinating idea. It’s finding someone to fund it that I think is the real challenge. It’s very easy in our modern day of cuts and rationalisation and all of that to see that as a quaint, passion project and what’s going to be the result of it? I think there may also be, from a BBC point of...
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Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...publicity campaigns for Amnesty International, they are now writing for an online magazine News Channel. Both of these activities allow them to be really flexible with their commitment, and work odd hours at home. This is vital as they travel for their job a lot. ‘I’ve always been good at sport and my boss suggested I try coaching. He said it would also look good on...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...public imagination. Together with the anti-Vietnam War movement and the counterculture, the civil rights movement has become part of the popular memory of the 1960s, helping to characterise the decade as a period of rapid transformation and upheaval. But how successful, ultimately, was this struggle for racial equality? Was it a radical, revolutionary movement, or...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...publicity, his Europe-wide contacts among influential people, including crowned heads – notably Frederick the Great of Prussia and Empress Catherine the Great of Russia – and above all by his inimitable style, pointedly ironic, forceful, mischievous, malicious and funny. Voltaire never missed his target. He made the authorities, the ecclesiastical perpetrators of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Turning rebellion into money: The upstarts who sell out
Money & Business

Turning rebellion into money: The upstarts who sell out

...publicity, no matter how offensive (a beer called “Trashy Blonde”, anyone?) – and which attracts some hard questions about corporate culture which don’t suggest a rebellious workplace encouraging freedom of thought. And in the final chapter, there is a rapid move from challenging capitalism to embodying it. It’s not easy trading on rebellion. Monetised, not...
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