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Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...public rituals. This course asks some very basic questions – What do we mean by ‘early modern’? What was ‘Europe’ at this time? – and introduces you to a set of themes that will help to structure your understanding. So, it’s time to leave Venice and the Doge’s barge, and turn to early modern Europe, its society and culture...Early modern Europe: an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...health started to improve in the second half of the twentieth century, followed more recently by a growth in income. But given that these countries are all so very different not least in terms of population sizes or standards of living, how can we make fair comparisons between them? Rosling's approach is to use normalised or standardised figures that try to take away some...
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Video 45 mins
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...health more broadly and to Social Services and Welfare. Ann One of the things that I think is brilliant about Childline is that it doesn’t get stuck on the rhetoric of children’s need. What I mean by that is that it is very common to construct what children’s needs are from the outside in a way which is not at all helpful because it is paternalistic and it makes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...Public Administration at Harvard. He worked for a number of years as an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and at the London Business School before joining the BBC in 1993 as an economics correspondent for radio and television. In 1997, he became Economist Editor on BBC2’s Newsnight programme, and four years after that he was appointed BBC Economics Editor...
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Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...public gathering of historians I think I may have damaged his career very slightly by suggesting he would have also made an excellent television producer. Ian of course is one of the world experts though, if not the single greatest expert on the life and times of Adolf Hitler. His two volume epic biography of the Nazi dictator is now the standard text on the subject, and...
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Audio 45 mins
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...health and education provision and rising poverty and inequality. The benefits of revenue and rents fail to trickle down to the majority of citizens. Yet, the continent abounds with natural resources and more are being found all of the time, which is why nations like China are increasingly looking to Africa to secure new supplies. According to Vines (2014): ‘Six of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...publicity. Dallas Campbell: Here are the canals on … Frank Drake: These are the canals and the civilisation that was solving its problems with this great canal system that he thought he saw with the telescope. All of which proved to be false. Dallas Campbell: Do you think that’s because of back then, you know, we obviously have a sort of anthropocentric view of the...
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Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...public debates often circle round and round who has legitimate claims to welfare and that sort of division of people into bad, undeserving, scrounging, bogus, against decent, legitimate, deserving, respectable, is I think one of the sort of recurrent features that students might find throughout D218. Gail Lewis May I add one other point in relation to that as well that as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr