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HeadStart Classical Studies
History & The Arts

HeadStart Classical Studies

...worlds of ancient Greece and Rome with this collection of free courses on the classical world...The birth of the goddess Athena from the head of her father, Zeus. Image by Flaroh Illustration. The courses are: Exploring Homer's Odyssey Exploring ancient Greek religion The many guises of the emperor Augustus Herodotus and the invention of history Exploring Ovid's big ideas...
The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...world, towards employment in manufactures and commerce? It was earlier than one might think. In a chapter by Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Tony Wrigley from 2014, they estimated that, as early as c. 1710, 37.7 per cent of working men and women were already part of the “secondary sector”, which is mostly manufactures, plus a few other areas such as building. Although some of...
The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...world. Nowadays, the Theory of Moral Sentiments is generally only remembered by historians, but Smith’s contemporaries rightly hailed it as a revolutionary book. Other eighteenth-century philosophers were attempting to mould human behaviour according to external commands derived from religion or philosophical systems. Smith, though, argued that human morality was...
Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...heritage. Then in 1973 even the industry went, the big wage packets, the good hedonistic working class lifestyle that had developed in Coventry was then destroyed or at least severely damaged. I’m not surprised that growing up in the period inspired you to write the sort of music that you did. Terry: So what cities do you think have got it right? Dr Lincoln Allison:...
Globalisation and health
Society, Politics & Law

Globalisation and health

...world? Ilona Kickbusch reviews the rapidly changing world of global health. In the past there were relatively few organisations involved and there was a hard dividing line between the public and private spheres. Today there are many more players and the issues are much more complex. In our rapidly shrinking world, where modern technology and infrastructure are able to...
Henry Tudor: a Welsh hero…?
History & The Arts

Henry Tudor: a Welsh hero…?

...heritage organisation Cadw. Instead, as BBC Radio Wales has highlighted, it was the result of a four-year grass-roots campaign by local residents. [Pembroke Castle, Wales] Henry VII - born Henry Tudor - was born at Pembroke Castle in 1457 Henry came to power by defeating the infamous Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. He could claim descent from medieval Welsh...
Why do we have a two minutes’ silence on 11th November?
History & The Arts

Why do we have a two minutes’ silence on 11th November?

...World War. He modelled the silence on a practice he had observed over there known as the ‘three minutes’ pause’: “At noon each day, all work, all talk and all movement were suspended for three minutes that we might concentrate as one in thinking of those – the living and the dead – who had pledged and given themselves for all that we believe in.” It seemed...
The Anniversary of D-Day
Miscellaneous

The Anniversary of D-Day

On the 6th June 1944 the Allied invasion of Normandy began. This year marks the 80th Anniversary of 'D-Day' so we've put together a great range of resources on the Second World War...To mark the anniversary, we've compiled some of our Second World War resources...