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Curated Video
What is the media?
Pupil outcome: I can explain the different sources of media, how we can tell what is newsworthy and why information neighbourhoods differ. Key learning points: - Media has three main types: print media, such as newspapers; broadcast...
Curated Video
Developing reading preferences in Year 4 by exploring a range of forms
Pupil outcome: I can develop my awareness of a range of forms. Key learning points: - Reading Non-Fiction can develop knowledge of the world around you and the people that inhabit it - Reading about other people's lives and cultures can...
Gresham College
From Grub Street to Fleet Street: The Development of the Early English Newspaper
From the broadsides of the sixteenth century to the broadsheets of the 19th century, taking in the Civil War newsbooks, the gutter press of the 18th century, the rise of the Sunday papers full of sex, sport and sensationalism, and the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lewis R. Gordon - For 'Biola'
Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums, other percussive instruments, and piano), who was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in the Bronx, New York, where he attended...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Frank Harris lll - The 400th
Professor Harris has written for more than 50 publications over the past 25 years, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New Haven Register, Northeast Magazine, and USA Today. He currently writes a column for...
Gresham College
The 'Romantic' Guitar - Professor Christopher Page
An introduction to the guitar as the symbol of Romanticism at the turn of the 19th Century='http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-romantic-guitar' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Century ‘If I could play upon the guitar’,...
Gresham College
Harmony in the Lowest Home: The Guitar and the Labouring Poor - Professor Christopher Page
An examination of class and musicality in industrial Britain='http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/harmony-in-the-lowest-home-the-guitar-and-the-labouring-poor' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Britain By the 1830s, guitars...
Curated Video
The real reason Egypt is moving its capital
Cairo isn’t the problem. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos In 2017, Egypt’s government announced it would build a new capital city 45...
Gresham College
Exploring Ephemera: The Illumination of History - John Scott
The lecture will take an overview of the role of everyday documents in illustrating the economic development of the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century, ranging from newspapers and manuscript letters of the period to invoices...
Gresham College
The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins - Professor Ian Haywood
In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English history erupted onto the streets of London. Sparked by resistance to the Catholic Relief Act of 1778, the riots soon escalated into a sustained assault on government properties and...
Gresham College
A Haberdashery Shop on London Bridge: Journal of a Georgian Gentleman - Mike Rendell
The fascinating story of eighteenth century haberdasher who recorded what he ate, what he purchased, how he slept and what the weather was like in obsessive detail. He also kept newspaper cuttings and admission tickets, he copied...