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Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...becoming a harder and harder task and, as is well known, the data provided by Oxfam deals only with recorded wealth, with much of the wealth of the super-rich hidden away in assorted hide-a-ways around the world, the names of many of which are increasingly as familiar to us as are overseas holiday destinations. Visualising inequality This aside, it is a difficult task to...
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Article 15 mins
Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...become clearer if we flip back two-and-a-half millennia to the men generally regarded as the first two historians. Writing in the fifth century BC, both Herodotus and Thucydides took the origins and course of war as their subject. In spite of this underlying similarity, the differences between them were profound. The Histories of Herodotus attempt to explain the causes...
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What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?

...become assimilated into white America and had failed to face themselves as true black people. Sting like a bee The events that followed Ali’s call-up by the military in February 1966 were dramatised by a background of growing resistance to the US involvement in the Vietnam War. Ali’s oft-quoted remark “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong” made headlines...
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Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...Becoming a diffractive practitioner', Teacher Learning and Professional Development, 2(1), pp. 1–17. Jackson, N. (2019) Exploring Learning Ecologies, 2nd edition. Available at: https://www.lifewideeducation.uk/uploads/1/3/5/4/13542890/lulu_upload.pdf (Accessed: 26 January 2026). Lambert, L. (2021) 'Diffraction as an otherwise practice of exploring new teachers’...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...Gottleib, Cambridge University Press. Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood Helen Morton, University of Hawaii Press. The Famished Road, Ben Okri, Vintage. Editor's Note: This page was originally published with an photograph of The Shilluk people in their village Yom - in Tonga, Sudan, rather than the Pacific Island of the same name to which the article referred....
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Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...become much more apparent under the Cameron government and that is a separation of the economic and the social. And people talk about it, when government ministers and the media talk about poverty now, by and large, they are making no reference to large scale economic change, they are making very little reference to economic crisis, they are making very little reference...
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Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...become more knowledgeable about the mortgage market but also more confident about making smart decisions about one of most important areas of personal finance. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course. We welcome your feedback and suggestions to improve the course. This course is...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...becomes. In London, the distance between each line of longitude is about 70 km, and even if it were possible it would take a very long time to walk all 360 degrees of longitude from London and back again around the world. At the North Pole and South Pole you could do it in just seconds. For historical reasons, the 0° longitude line runs through Greenwich in London and,...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs