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When Edward met Bertha: Mental Health, Colonialism, Race and Patriarchy in Jane Eyre
History & The Arts

When Edward met Bertha: Mental Health, Colonialism, Race and Patriarchy in Jane Eyre

...works at home, when you can go abroad as a missionary and impose your religion and culture on people unable to defend themselves? Before he leaves for the colonies, to subjugate as many indigenous people as he can, he exhorts Jane to join him, and claims her ‘for God’. But Jane sees through his religious zeal, his partriachial assumptions and his need to dominate...
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Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'
Society, Politics & Law

Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'

...work or housing, health care or other support for lengthening periods. Increasing racism and hostility towards minority ethnic and religious groups are part of making life unbearable for some of those who have fled persecution. A hostile environment In 2012, home secretary Theresa May set out to “create a really hostile environment for illegal migrants”. Beginning in...
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Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...work to make others aware and engage in democratic processes, such as elections to vote for people and policies that you agree with. Consider changing your lifestyle and see if you can be more environmentally friendly (for example, think about how you use energy, where you get your food, or how you recycle waste). Small changes in your daily lifestyle can have a big...
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Our sense of balance
Science, Maths & Technology

Our sense of balance

...works alongside the vestibular system which is responsible for balance of the head. In sum therefore, how our sense of balance is created and maintained is complex, arising from a variety of systems in the body processing visual information, as well as peripheral proprioceptive and vestibular information. But we have many more sensory systems that ensure that we can...
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What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...work out exactly how far away the object reflecting the sound is. This is the principle of radar which is used to map and track the locations of aircraft in the sky and ships on the sea, in this case using electromagnetic waves. It is also the same principle used by ships that send a sonar (SOund Navigation And Ranging) pulse of sound into the ocean and ‘listen’ to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...work, hardly begun till the Wednesday. Everywhere the cottages and the small children were dirty, for the languid mothers gave their strength to the loom; pious Dissenting women, perhaps, who took life patiently, and thought that salvation depended chiefly on predestination, and not at all on cleanliness. The gables of Dissenting chapels now made a visible sign of...
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Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol
History & The Arts

Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol

...work. I told her that there was no law against her wearing men’s clothing decently, if she did not steal it. After she had two more convictions, I fitted her out with the clothes she wanted, and paid her fare to South Wales. she got work in a night shift, and lay on her back in a coal-pit hewing coal. Ymdriniwyd â'r math hwn o chwilio yn y canllaw ymchwil, Morgannwg...
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Evolutionary tree of mammals
Nature & Environment

Evolutionary tree of mammals

...work out which mammals are most closely related to each other appreciate the importance of bringing together evidence from different sources...School activities: Evolutionary tree of mammals: 1 Natural groups - Darwin made extensive observations on a great many creatures, including mammals, and noticed that species fell into natural groups, e.g. lions, tigers and leopards...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs