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Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...central to thinking about childhood as differentiated. One of the things to always be the case was that people talked about children as if they were somehow unitary, by that I mean as if all children were the same, as if there were no differences between them, the only thing that differentiated them was age, so in other words a developmental sequence differentiated them,...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...central role within medicine. In an area when ‘high tech’, scientific medicine seemed to supply an endless stream of new theories and better therapies, the laboratory was assumed to have won its place simply on the grounds of utility. While laboratory research undoubtedly revolutionised understanding of body function and disease, its impact on medical practice is less...
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...central to understanding how empires were established, managed, experienced and dismantled...Empires have existed throughout most of human history. They have spanned the globe. They have influenced the way we are governed, our systems of trade, how we use technology, our relationships with the natural world. They have shaped how we have seen, mapped and divided the world....
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...central-heating controllers microwave ovens games consoles. This is a very short extract from a very long list, but even this limited set of examples shows how significant the use of computers has become. Without computers many everyday products such as mobile phones would not exist, dramatic progress in the development of products such as artificial limbs could not have...
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...central beliefs of the Wiccan worldview – and of 1960s seekers more broadly. Activity 4 Timing: Allow approximately 20 minutes Read the poem, The Charge of the Goddess, by Doreen Valiente. How does it reflect the spiritual concerns of the baby boomers? Jot down a few thoughts as you read. Listen to the words of the Great Mother, who was of old also called Artemis;...
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...central America for example would immediately contrast a cold and relatively barren region with richly tropical bioscope (Figure 1). However, such information was not always public knowledge and it wasn’t until the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when naturalists began making regular exploratory voyages to the far corners of the globe, that the first...
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...central to the Enlightenment of the 18th Century, this did not lead to the theory of evolution. Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis proposed the spontaneous generation and extinction of organisms as part of his theory of origins. However, he advanced no theory of evolution. Georges-Louis Leclerc, a prominent naturalist of the time, explicitly considered, and rejected, the...
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...central pulp cavity contains blood vessels and nerves and becomes almost closed off at maturity. Members of the Insectivora have numerous (up to 44) small teeth. Look at Figure 2a, which shows the skull and lower jaw of the hedgehog. [Figure 2] Figure 2a: adapted from Reeve, N. (1994) Hedgehogs, illustrated by Ruth Lindsay, T. & A.D. Poyser Natural History Series; Figure...