Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Paul Troop with contributions from Neil Graffin, Emma Jones, Suzanne Rab, and Max Weaver. It was first published in July 2023.

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Images

Course image: Christian from Pixabay

Figure 2: Left: Photo by Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels; Right: LightFieldStudios/iStock / Getty Images Plus.

Figure 5: (a) Image by Jan Mallander from Pixabay; (b) MBI/Alamy (c) Hinterhaus Productions/Getty.

Figure 7: Granger Historical Picture Archive / Alamy.

Figure 8: Moviestore; Shutterstock.com.

Figure 10: Don Smith/Radio Times/Getty Images.

Figure 11: Adapted from www.slideshare.net/ GymJamW/ civil-courts-and-track-system.

Figure 12: REUTERS / Alamy Stock Photo.

Figure 13: left: Adapted from CKP1001 / shutterstock; centre: Adapted from jennyhorne / getty; right: Adapted from Kandhal Keshavala / EyeEm / Getty.

Figure 14: lleerogers / Getty images.

Figure 15: Luise Berg-Ehlers / Alamy.

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