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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...history. When I hear the word ‘suffragette’, or come across it in print somewhere, I see visual images. The most powerful include Emmeline Pankhurst caught up in the physically restraining arms of a policeman at the gates of Buckingham Palace when she tried to present a petition to the king. Or how about the grainy footage of the Epsom Derby in June 1913, when Emily...
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Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...history of British broadcasting. Sussex deployed closed-circuit television for classroom observation in teacher training, to record and play back lectures and to display teaching materials. The university also had audio-visual units, language laboratories and some programmed learning. Technology, Briggs felt, should be employed to enable collaborative learning and he...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...history and its role in medicine today...The History Perhaps all human cultures throughout the world and throughout history have used some form of herbal medicine. Certainly plants which are still used as medicines have been found in ancient burial sites around the world – the oldest may be the grave of a Neanderthal man from (what is now) Northern Iraq estimated to be...
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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...histories of their respective nations. This is a potentially revealing angle because ideas about the past provide the foundation for national identities in the present. The glories and triumphs of yesteryear, the collective endurance of vicissitudes long past, the belief in shared origins and collective experiences: these are the things which provide the raw materials...
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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...History Unit. We were trying to tell environmental stories and warn of climate change long before the E word became fashionable. I’m not sure we changed anything at the time but we did lay the groundwork for people to listen later. I left the BBC in the 1990s and since then have worked as a Producer and Executive Producer for all UK terrestrial broadcasters and...
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...history and me In terms of television and natural history I am a strange character it seems, in that I absolutely love television and as a child I absolutely loved television. I watched television all day and every day at the expense of reading things like actual books. I wore out the armchair of my parents’ sofa because I watched so much television, and my mother...
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Masterpiece Me
History & The Arts

Masterpiece Me

...history by having a selfie turned into, for example, a modernist masterpiece or an ersatz Monet. Thousands of you have enjoyed the app through the years, but we have reluctantly decided to retire it as the technology which drove it has become very dated and many users were finding it more frustrating than fun to struggle with Flash. Thanks to those of you who turned...
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What is language?
Languages

What is language?

...history and social significance of our communicative abilities. Transcript If this piece has piqued your interest in the world of words, we have many language courses available for you to study. If you want to know more about the function and significance of language, we can particularly recommend the following courses: Or, if you’re looking for a course to develop your...
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