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Create stunning images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Create stunning images of the Universe

...work horse of astronomy is the optical telescope. From its inspirational beginnings, being pointed to the sky for the first time in the 1600’s by Galileo Galilei, to the goliaths of modern-day astronomy, such as the Gran Telescopio Canerias with its 10.4 metre mirror, all allow us to get clearer and more detailed views of objects further and further out into the...
Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever
History & The Arts

Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever

...work with patterns. Repeating patterns of notes and repeating patterns of rhythms are what enable listeners to follow and understand a piece of music. Many composers have been fascinated by the effects that can be created by repeating the same pattern over and over again, something that music theory calls an ostinato. Some composers have taken such things to extremes:...
Selling Empire: Exhibitions
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Exhibitions

...worked with the massively popular exhibitions held in London between 1851 and 1925. The Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace showed Empire products alongside equally prominent British, European and foreign displays. It was not until 1886 that Empire clearly took centre-stage in an exhibition. [Crystal Palace] 'Festival of Empire' By the 1911 Festival of Empire,...
Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV

...works and what doesn’t. One approach is to find the right places to plant relevant storylines within existing programmes. Natural history, travel, adventure and landscape shows all draw good audiences, and often have opportunities to weave in appropriate reference to climate change. This can be seen in the BBC’s Countryfile and Springwatch, and Channel 4’s Grand...
What does the head of Ofsted do?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the head of Ofsted do?

...work in a far less overt manner. But in spite of their very different styles, all had one thing in common: they were familiar with the culture and contexts of education in England and all came from the UK. Ofsted was not set up to push through education reforms against resistance from unions, nor was it established to push any particular party political agenda. It was set...
How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto
Languages

How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto

...work in the real world. His Elvish languages as they are depicted throughout his work are living, changing things, which evolve to reflect the culture of the communities who speak them. The idea of an international auxiliary language, on the other hand, is to provide a stable, unchanging code, which can be easily learnt by anyone. But human languages are never static;...
The first geological map of the UK
History & The Arts

The first geological map of the UK

...work by Smith, who was shunned by the scientific community for many years and ended up in debtors’ prison. Transcript Today, exactly 200 years since its first publication, a copy of Smith’s map – rediscovered after more than a century in a museum box – will go on public display at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. Aside from a copy held at The Geological...
Lesbianism and the criminal law of England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Lesbianism and the criminal law of England and Wales

...working-class and foreign women was treated as an open secret between men: the law kept silent about it because those ruling-class men did not want respectable women – their wives and daughters – to find out. In fact, there had been prosecutions of women for lesbian relationships since at least the end of the seventeenth century. In the eighteenth century, there was a...