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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...casts Byron as an especially glamorous tourist – like the dying gladiator, these stanzas suggest, he is an exile, far from home, defeated by the inevitability of death, but his emotions are the centre of attention all the same. A tourist to Rome might well feel trite or belated – but not if he or she could channel Byron. For this reason, Murray’s guidebook excerpted...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...sands and deliver a teaching experience for them that not only doesn't map to the world that they live in, doesn't map to the jobs and prosperity we wish for them and their families for the generations ahead. Quite convincing, isn’t he? But how exactly does he do it? Would you like to be able to talk like Martin Bean, former Vice-Chancellor of The Open University? Over...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...sands of Egypt, you can immediately draw conclusions about the sorts of things people bought in Egypt, but you will find yourself immediately wanting to know who these people were: rich or poor, natives or foreign, and so on. Not even documentary sources are completely straightforward. A further, more general, issue relating to written sources follows on from these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...cast and won 63.6% of seats at Westminster. The combined number of votes for the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats represented 47.5% of the total votes (over 4% more than Labour), yet between them they won 32.1% of the seats available at Westminster. In the 2001 election, Labour had 43% of the total vote whereas all the other parties had 57% – yet Labour maintained...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...cast up on his desert island. Robinson Crusoe, of course, was more than just a romantic adventure likely to capture young Robert's imagination, for it was also a highly moral tale, with strong religious, environmental and economic messages. ‘We do not read it’, the literary scholar Angus Ross has observed, only in order to escape into an exciting world of danger and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...casting ‘something of romantic fancy’ over ‘familiar things’ (ibid., p.512). When he hastily decided to put his new idea into All The Year Round, which had already seen the heartening effect upon sales of his historical romance, A Tale of Two Cities (1859), he planned a weekly serial of about the same length. It was to be much shorter than his other novels,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...cast away167, and so, come, death! Two o’clock is your hour? ORLANDO Ay, sweet Rosalind. ROSALIND By my troth168, and in good earnest, and so God mend169 me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous170, if you break one jot of your promise, or come one minute behind your hour, I will think you the most pathetical171 break-promise, and the most hollow lover, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...caste system in India. ‘Asian values’ is a prominent alternative form of human rights conception which is less individualistic than the Western-derived notion, and places greater value on religion, family and elders. Since the end of the Cold War divisions between the West and the Soviet bloc, the human rights discourse and agenda have become even stronger guides to...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs