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World-Changing Women: Mary Prince
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Mary Prince

...history here... Mary Prince Caribbean/England 1788 - ? Anti-slavery [History of Mary Prince book cover image] Mary Prince's novel - first edition cover It is estimated that, by 1800, there were 450,000 slaves in the British West Indies and Britain’s economy was supported by the vast wealth of prosperous slave traders. By the 1830s, however, the slave trade had been...
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World-Changing Women: Alexandra Kollontai
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Alexandra Kollontai

...family responsibilities. Alexandra Kollontai, however, who was inspired by Marxist ideas to join the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party at the age of 27, showed that it was possible to follow a different path. She was eventually to become the most prominent woman in the Soviet administration following the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 when was appointed People's...
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Portales: beginners' Spanish second edition
Languages

Portales: beginners' Spanish second edition

...family A person talking about her family, who they are and what they do for a living A day in my life A person describing a typical day in their life Opening times Opening times in a shop Spare time activities Three people saying what they do in their spare time Preferences What do you enjoy doing? Invitations Short dialogues with 4 people accepting or declining an...
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Moons of the Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of the Solar System

...family of satellites. This collection of videos looks at five of the most intriguing worlds that we've managed to visit over the last fifty years, including The Moon, Europa, Phobos, Deimos and Titan. From the first human footsteps on another world to the most distant spacecraft landing in history, our neighbourhood of moons has always played a central role in our...
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Moving education in Sri Lanka from equal access to full gender equality
Education & Development

Moving education in Sri Lanka from equal access to full gender equality

...history of free and compulsory education for boys and girls which was achieved shortly after independence, and girls’ equal access to education and gender parity in all three levels (primary, secondary, and tertiary) of education has been an important contributing factor to this idea of gender equality. Sri Lanka has in some circles been considered a model of...
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9/11: Attack on the Wires
Science, Maths & Technology

9/11: Attack on the Wires

...history strikes the densest cluster of networks on the planet? How did the largest communications provider in the United States handle the surge in demand? Despite surviving earthquakes, hurricanes and other man-made and natural disasters, the staff at AT and T struggled to cope with the flood of calls that followed the tragic events of September 11th. Over the course of...
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Understanding Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Milton Keynes

...family, the very existence of Milton Keynes is considered contentious and many people have very strong opinions about whether it should exist at all. This video explores everything from the sociological ideas behind the development of Milton Keynes through to its commitment to public art and how organisations like The Parks Trust provide a unique model for maintaining...
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Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?

...histories. In a personal view on the series, Leeds University's Jessica Meyer asks if the series left too many tales untold...In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf imagined that Shakespeare had a sister, a gifted young woman named Judith. Like her brother, she runs away to London to become an actress. Here, unlike her brother, she is met not with opportunity and...
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