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Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...tree-like, clustered pillars, and its measureless windows, like breadths of stained foliage in autumnal woodlands. You want the scale of nature for the Minster at York, and I cannot liken it to less than all-out-doors. Some cathedrals, like that of Wells, make you think of gardens; but York Minster will not be satisfied with less than an autumnal woodland, where the trees...
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Article 10 mins
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...family is one way: ‘Tudor England’ refers to the time when England was ruled by monarchs from the Tudor family. Historians also talk about particular chronological periods, such as ‘the Sixties’, referring to the decade of the 1960s – although, in fact, most historians would stretch this period to include the late 1950s and the first years of the 1970s. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...family run a small building firm in Liverpool. The father, Charles expresses the concerns of many who like him are angry at those who just take from the system. Mr McEwan The people who’ve no intentions of working, I’ve no time for them at all. I don’t think they should receive benefits and they should be forced to work. It's difficult enough to cope today. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...family reasons: one couple even transferring traits seen in a current generation to their ancestors. A: It was good, interesting weren't it? Cause it told about your mother's clan didn't it … [we] learnt a bit about the battle that you were late. B: It's a family trait … I wanted to know if the McPherson clan was involved in it but they weren't, they were a day late....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Home education collection
Education & Development

Home education collection

...familial and personalised learning, obtaining qualifications and the cancellation of public examinations in 2020 and 2021, and employability and carer experiences of previously home-educated adults. But we won’t stop there. We will continue to develop and add new content and already have some exciting projects in the pipeline. Who are they for? These articles are...
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The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after
Languages

The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after

...family of musicians but I first visited East Germany in 1982 when we went on a camping holiday, a group of ten of us, including children. We arrived at a campsite in Werder, near Potsdam at 3am and blundered about noisily setting up our tents on the playground, but no-one seemed too bothered. This was the first of a comedy of errors throughout the trip (we got as far as...
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Care for the elderly
Money & Business

Care for the elderly

...families. However, in the 20th century, especially, this became a public obligation to invest in and ensure the welfare of older populations. However, in the current climate of austerity this once sacred duty seems increasingly hard to guarantee. Added to this are emerging concerns of how we can support not just those who are retired but also those looking after them....
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Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...family, mutual and cooperative enterprises which have successfully resisted pressures to become a ‘public limited company’, and whose market leadership adds to the pressure to reform the shareholder model. How would conventional accounting change? Dr Mike Lucas assesses the changes to conventional accounting methods, and management teaching, that would be needed to...
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