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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...Code of Rites. Paris: Pantanos Classics. Osuloga, D. (2021) Black and British: A Forgotten History. London: Pan Publishing. Rahn, O. (2006) Crusade Against the Grail: The Struggle between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome. Vermouth: Inner Traditions Publishers. Runican, S (1987) A History of the Crusade. London: Penguin Publishers. Simmons, A. (2017)...
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The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...code for the Scottish Fisheries Museum] Angus Macleod Archive (2022) index.php (angusmacleodarchive.org.uk) Angusmacleodarchive.org.uk (Accessed 12/12/22). Davis, S. (2010) ‘A whirling vortex of women’: The Strikes of Scots Herring Women in East Anglia in the 1930s and 1940s. Labour History Review, Vol. 75 No. 2, August, 2010, pp 181–207. Historic Environment...
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Why is FGM practised?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is FGM practised?

...codes and are breaking the law. The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2025) vigorously calls for an end to medicalised FGM as it perpetuates and risks normalising an illegal, unsafe, violent and harmful practice and grossly undermines eradication efforts. FGM can never be condoned; no matter if undertaken by a lay cutter or by a healthcare practitioner. For further reading...
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Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...simple picture in Figure 4 substantially. A better representation is shown in Figure 7. Now most of the longwave radiation from the surface is effectively 'trapped' and recycled by the atmosphere, being repeatedly absorbed and re-emitted in all directions by the greenhouse gases. This warms the atmosphere. Some of the re-emitted radiation ultimately goes out to space,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...simple grammatical terms such as ‘noun’, ‘verb’, ‘adjective’ and so on. People, animals, objects and abstract concepts are all nouns. All Italian nouns – not just people and animals – have a gender; they are either masculine or feminine. Knowing the gender of nouns is important since it determines the form of the article (‘the’ or ‘a’ in English)...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...simple experiment in the bath to demonstrate total internal reflection if you have a waterproof torch (or a torch you can seal in a transparent plastic bag). You might be sceptical about doing this experiment, but I would commend it to you to reinforce the concept of total internal reflection. Please, though, remember that electricity and water can be dangerous. Only do...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...simple animated sequences, immediately upsetting the five signwriters already employed by the BBC who provided the bulk of televisions graphic needs. Over the next few years, this very much considered experimental section, was built up to a staff of about 8-9 full-timers including those who specialised in calligraphy, photography and those who had backgrounds in...
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Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...simple way, that dataset combined with the other scientific studies that went around it, became the piece of evidence that was taken to the European Commission, I think it was in 2007, that changed the European Commission’s mind on how seriously to take climate change and changed policy. And that was by people looking out for frogspawn, ladybirds, swifts, peacock...
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