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...system with the sun at the centre while the planets revolved around it, proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). The spread of these new ideas was aided by the development of printing using movable type, devised by Johannes Gutenberg (c.1398–1468) in the 1450s. There was also a significant change in the economy, with a decline in the number of people holding land...

...Think about this first stanza of Thomas Hardy's ‘Neutral Tones’ (1867): We stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; – They had fallen from an ash, and were gray. (Gibson, 1976, p. 12) Notice that, in the last line, ‘oak’ or ‘elm’ would work just as well as far as the rhythm or...

...think these school lessons are so crucial to teaching morals and values, respect for all people and communities, and it provides us with the foundation frameworks to make life decisions. Others are not: [RE was] ‘very unfocussed – not really exploring the roots of faith or the philosophy of major religions – instead just learning some trivia about a few...

...a chord and why do you think it did make a particular impression on you? Was it because it showed a new aspect of a work of art or object you were already familiar with? Or maybe because you had never seen the object or work of art before and it took your breath away? And which visual object expresses the encounter between these cultures most strikingly in your view?...