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Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide
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Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide

Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems? The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world - and yet concludes that all we can ever know are 'ideas'. Dave Robinson, with the aid of Bill Mayblin's brilliant illustrations, outlines the arguments of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, J.S. Mill, Bertrand Russell and the last British empiricist, A.J. Ayer.
 
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Britain is Great - British Council (lesson title: Countryside is Great)
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Britain is Great - British Council (lesson title: Countryside is Great)Britain is Great - British Council (lesson title: Countryside is Great)

Find out what is GREAT about Britain in these exciting videos produced by the British Council.
 
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BBC Word on the Street (lesson title: Social Media)
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BBC Word on the Street (lesson title: Social Media)BBC Word on the Street (lesson title: Social Media)

In these exciting videos, co-produced by the BBC and the British Council, learn how English works as the hosts explore British culture around the UK.
Each lesson includes two essential Scenes accompanied by Language Focus sections in which Rob Lewis highlights the grammatical points. In addition, you can find a related bonus clip in the end. Transcripts and supportive activities have been provided in PDF files.
 
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BBC Word on the Street (lesson title: Shakespeare)
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BBC Word on the Street (lesson title: Shakespeare)BBC Word on the Street (lesson title: Shakespeare)

In these exciting videos, co-produced by the BBC and the British Council, learn how English works as the hosts explore British culture around the UK.
Each lesson includes two essential Scenes accompanied by Language Focus sections in which Rob Lewis highlights the grammatical points. In addition, you can find a related bonus clip in the end. Transcripts and supportive activities have been provided in PDF files.
 
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British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People
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British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People

This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements. Following their mentor John Ruskin who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultural philanthropists promulgated a Religion of Beauty as they advocated practical schemes for tenement reform, university-settlement education, Sunday museum opening, and High Anglican revival. Although subject to novelist's ambivalent, even satirical, representations, missionary aesthetes nevertheless constituted an influential social network, imbuing fin-de-siecle artistic communities with political purpose and political lobbies with aesthetic sensibility.
 
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