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The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...English Sheepdog used in the UK to advertise a popular brand of paint. Decades later I can still recall the slogans from other lager ads of the time: “I bet he drinks Carling Black Label” and “Australians wouldn’t give a Castlemaine XXXX for anything else”. On holiday with my cousins, some time in the late 1980s, I remember one of the older boys emulating the...
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Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...English or South Asian heritage, then you might move in a particular way in terms of the policy in comparison to if you're talking about groups of people who are migrant into the country. And that's the ways in which there's contestations there's a struggle over how you define the groups of people who are involved in those disturbances, but those struggles over the…how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...English broadcaster and naturalist, with a University of Cambridge degree in natural science. He has been producing and presenting natural history programmes for the BBC since the 1950s, when he made his first series Zoo Quest. The programme he is most proud of and best known for is the landmark series Life on Earth, which he wrote and presented, and which was first...
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Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...English Heritage Photo Library; Figure 3 Endler, J. A. 1980, 'Natural selection on colour patterns in Poecilia reticulata', Evolution, 34(1), pp. 76-91, AllenPress, Inc. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...English visitor who's delighted with Glasgow life, its powerful vitality, innumerable lights and shades and the magnitude of its achievements which is rather a nice summing up of Glasgow's image at that time. A few years later we find another loving depiction of the commercial world in Frederick Niven's "Justice of the Peace" published in 1914 but describing things as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...English, not going to be Afrikaans, necessarily. In which case, if you create one OER in one language, if you could easily just translate and mould it to other languages, it means that everybody can study the same material in their first language, and not have to worry about studying in their third language, second language, third language, fourth, whatever it is. Make it...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...English lawyer, I've got great respect for Scottish lawyers. And in particular, I'm aware that the great so-called English judges often turn out to be Scottish. So Lord Mansfield in the 18th century is regarded as the epitome of the legal system of England and Wales, of which he was Lord Chief Justice. But in fact he was Scottish. His name is William Murray. And he was...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...English doctor called Edward Jenner tested the first form of vaccination on a young boy called James Phipps, who was the son of Jenner's gardener. At the time, smallpox was widespread. But Jenner had apparently overheard a milkmaid bragging that she would never catch smallpox because she had previously suffered with cowpox. Jenner decided to test this, first taking...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs