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Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...law since 1534, and the national churches of Wales and Scotland still have significant political and popular influence in their respective areas. The Christian religion underpins much of Britain’s legal and cultural assumptions. The Church of England exerts influence on legislation through the ‘Lords Spiritual’, 26 bishops who sit in the House of Lords. Where...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...law’) was often specific to a particular sanctuary or particular group of worshippers and, importantly, never sought to set out religious beliefs. As such, this type of evidence cannot tell you about the entire history of a particular cult and its belief system, but it can offer insight into important elements of it, especially relating to its administration. Activity 5...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

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

...law). The important thing is to understand that ‘religion’ or ‘religious’ can refer to different things, so there is no one measure of religious change. With that in mind, you will now read about some of the changes that were happening in different religions during the 1960s...A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s: 2 Crisis and innovation...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...law, and the other version was that this is abnormal, to be discouraged in every possible way and therefore certainly not to be encouraged as it was assumed by giving people the same rights within the law. And I think it's very easy to see that there was a struggle going on, and I think what's important is to recognise that those struggles are going on when there seems to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...law identify the changes of phase taking place in a variety of critical phenomena provide examples of gradual, accelerating and sudden changes in the properties of materials that accompany changes in temperature...Engineering: The challenge of temperature: 1 Temperature – problem or solution? - 'Have you taken the temperature effects into account?' (Figure 1) is nearly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...laws, three-and-sixpenny letters, a brawny and many-breeding pauperism, and other departed evils; but there were some pleasant things, too, which have also departed.Non omnia grandior ætas quæ fugiamus habet, says the wise goddess: you have not the best of it in all things, O youngsters! the elderly man has his enviable memories, and not the least of them is the memory...
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Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?

...law at a later stage. Greece also threatened to veto the outcomes of the European Council of February 2016 at which the terms of a pact with the United Kingdom were being negotiated before the Brexit referendum unless more realistic solutions to the refugee crisis and the management of EU borders were agreed. For his part, the former Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi,...
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Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol
History & The Arts

Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol

...law against her wearing men’s clothing decently, if she did not steal it. After she had two more convictions, I fitted her out with the clothes she wanted, and paid her fare to South Wales. she got work in a night shift, and lay on her back in a coal-pit hewing coal. Ymdriniwyd â'r math hwn o chwilio yn y canllaw ymchwil, Morgannwg Hoyw, sydd er gwaethaf y teitl yn...
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