For your background understanding, some links are provided here:
Discover More The Shroud of Turin website
Discover More How did the Turin Shroud get its image?
Discover More HistoryToday: The Origins of the Shroud of Turin
Students could use this material to discuss the extent to which religion is a closed system. How have Christians responded to critics of the shroud being a fake?
Discussion on this topic could focus on the ways in which poverty further exacerbates the social ...
The Trussell Trust is a Christian organisation that works to "end hunger and poverty in the UK...
In this Open Learn ‘mini module’, Dr Mark Smith discusses a shift in attitude towards...
The ‘A Girl Called Jack’ blog has been widely featured in the media over the last few years – ...
In the BBC Radio 4 series, "A History of Ideas", Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss their work of...
This Guardian article looks at the results of an ONS survey and highlights some significant trend...
Students can use this material from the Open University to examine postcode trends in poverty
In 2010, the then Labour UK government defined a child in poverty as being one where the househol...
The following Telegraph article examines the Sunday Times Rich List and provides background infor...
Provide students with a copy of the article "Global Corporations, Global Unions", by Stephen L...
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