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...English. Tavernier’s account of Turkish ‘seraglios’ – as European works of this time called the women’s quarters in Middle Eastern homes – explicitly situated lesbian sexuality as a ‘vice’ of the East. (It is also framed simply as a reaction to male homosexuality: in the absence of virile heterosexual men, women turn to each other, rather than this being a...

...English. Comparing childhoods in America today with those of the American Colonial period (1600-1775), they have written: ‘Today, a four year-old who can tie his or her shoes is impressive. In colonial times, four-year-old girls knitted stockings and mittens and could produce intricate embroidery: at age six they spun wool. A good, industrious little girl was called...

...English children learn to be: open-minded, critical participants of public discourse, who make academically informed judgements about important matters of religion and belief which shape the global landscape. (NATRE, CoRE, RE: Today, n.d.) How can we ensure the ‘best case scenario’ for Religious Education in schools is likely to be experienced?...An education in...

...English cathedral is without. The morning was fitly dim and chill, and one could move about in the vague all the more comfortably for the absence of that appeal of thronging monuments which harasses and bewilders the visitor in other cathedrals; one could really give one's self up to serious emotion, and not be sordidly and rapaciously concerned with objects of interest....