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The Suffragette Movement: A Violent Campaign

The Suffragettes had a policy to go on hunger strike once they were in prison, so that the government would be shamed if they died in custody.


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The Start of the Suffragette Movement

“The majority of men in Parliament believed that women simply didn’t have the right kind of brains to understand how Parliament worked.”


Prototype invisibility coat

Could Invisibility be more than a fiction?

Fictional creation as it may be, such a thing as a cloak of invisibility is now being pursued as a potential reality, in the guise of “Scientific optics.”


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Why the study of History is vital to preventing xenophobia today

Studying history can help to generate an appreciation that we are all immigrants in one sense or another.


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How have attitudes to education changed over the last 30 years?

During the 1980s, education was centred around a liberal approach that was thought to foster creativity. However, half of all young people in the UK in the 1980s left school with no qualifications at all.


What’s happening to your local college?

Despite their uncertain status, colleges have just received notice that that they are about to be able to provide their own degrees.


The Hobbit

First and second editions of The Hobbit are extremely rare. At auction they rarely go for less than £20,000 a copy.


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Bigger than Stonehenge?

Durrington could in fact be older than our more familiar Stonehenge…


How much screen time are you getting?

Those who had spent an extra hour a day looking at a screen had results that were on average two grades below their peers.


Education

School Statistics: A History

Did you know that schools have been inspected since 1839?


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