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The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...class that emerged as a result of this shift. Laurie Taylor: And it’s linked to – obviously to smaller families presumably because I mean if you’re having seven people, an average of seven people, you can hardly have separate bedrooms for everybody. I mean you’re talking about the average family I think declining to a 1900 average of about three and a half per –...
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...class system that crossed the Irish Sea centuries ago, went beyond the Pale and spread across the globe (Linebaugh, 2019). In Africa, the Irish have always been unequivocally White even when to the English in England they have been a bit less than White, and possibly a bit Black (Ralston, 1999). It is some of these personal and political complications of whiteness that I...
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...de la Alhambra. Now we go to a place where we can see the Alhambra. And we are going to record the part of the Alhambra. MARYAM: Y aquí estamos en el Reino Nazarí de Granada, es decir, Alhambra. Esta fue la última ciudad en la que estuvieron los moriscos, conviviendo con otras religiones. And here we are in the Nasrid kingdom of Granada, that is, the Alhambra. This......
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...classed as a nation. One could argue that a nation can objectively be defined as a group of people which possesses a shared and distinct, historically persistent cultural identity, and which makes up a majority within a given territorial area. If that is the case, then one could argue that even if such a ‘nation’ is not pushing for a right to self-determination (in...
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...De Sautoy. Which of the above might they give as their primary reason for why people should learn mathematics? Use your preferred search engine to find out something about these two people and to explore further. Now consider your own motivation. Why do you think that students should spend time learning mathematics? Try to give an honest answer. Should they spend so much...
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...class, everything new to me and TES was great. The forums are fantastic. The advice people gave and the resources as well. It just makes that little bit less daunting. Maths isn’t my strong point. It’s something that I’m always looking at utilising the advice of other people for and one resource I downloaded off TES recently was a maths outdoor learning ideas and...
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From the 'Red Clyde' to the 'Blue Clyde'?
Society, Politics & Law

From the 'Red Clyde' to the 'Blue Clyde'?

...classes at the time who were fearful of the consequences of such a movement. These protests and disputes, culminating in the threat of some kind of uprising contributed to the coining of the term Red Clydeside. The subject since of many books, films, cultural events and academic studies, the period of ‘the Red Clyde’ continues to shape our understanding of the history...
Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?

...classed as non-essential luxury items. Can the government lift the tax? A long-term solution is difficult, because the current UK government is bound by the negotiations of a previous administration that took place four decades ago. Although unpopular with campaigners, the action of MPs to vote against the amendment is understandable: the UK is required to apply EU law...