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Brent Works is hosting online webinars as part of National Apprenticeship Week - Credit: Chris Winter A series of webinars are taking place for any Brent residents looking for job opportunities. Brent Works is hosting a week of online sessions until February 12 as part of National Apprentice Week with information on apprenticeship schemes, salaries, and employment vacancies.  Brent Council's Jobs and Apprenticeship Show 2019 - Credit: Brent Council Taking part is the tech industry, health and social care, HS2, Transport for London, the Metropolitan Police, the construction industry and the ...

How is history written and who writes it? – Zoe, aged ten, Glasgow, Scotland Thinking about who writes history is very important if we want to figure out how it is written. Lots of things influence how we see the world. This includes our education, where we come from, whether we are male or female, rich or poor. All these things affect how historians write the history of people, families, communities and societies in the past. For a long time, the people who wrote history were mostly educated men: from the “father of history”, the ancient Greek Herodotus who lived over 2000 years ago, t...

Wikipedia: Democracy at your fingertips? Twenty years on is the platform democratic or elitist? Keystone / Sascha Steinbach Wikipedia celebrates its 20th anniversary amid doubts whether it has helped spread democracy worldwide.   This content was published on January 15, 2021 - 09:00 January 15, 2021 - 09:00 Giannis Mavris The website’s mission was to provide free access to knowledge for everyone, everywhere. This was a radical departure from previous encyclopaedias, which were more elitist endeavours. Wikipedia was a promise of free availability of information and limitless exchange acro...

‘Switzerland is a cemetery of sensations’ Lispector and her husband, the diplomat Maury Gurgel Valente, in Bern, 1946. Acervo Clarice Lispector/Instituto Moreira Salles A postcard of Bern in Lispector's briefcase. The fairytale setting in the Swiss capital was in sharp contrast to reality for her. Acervo Clarice Lispector/Instituto Moreira Salles Bern, 1946: Lispector's first year in Switzerland. Here with friend Bluma Wainer, who was practically her "official photographer" as well as wife of the Brazilian press baron Samuel Wainer. Acervo Clarice Lispector/Instituto Moreira Salles ...

detroit automakers. >> brown: and ray suarez examines what the merger of media giants comcast and nbc universal means for consumers. that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> for three hours a week, i'm a coach, but when i was diagnosed with prostate cancer, i needed a coach. our doctor was great, but with so many tough decisions, i felt lost. united healthcare offered a specially trained r.n., who helped us weigh and understand all our options. for me, cancer was as scary as a fastball is to some of these kids, but my coach...