This chapter outlines the historical background of the growth of Islamic charities over the last few decades, and of Faith Based Organizations in general. It also discusses the humanitarian consequences of the clampdown on Islamic charities post 9/11, and questions the academic standard of some counter-terrorist studies that have authorized this clampdown. It calls for sympathetic steps to ease the way for those Islamic charities that accept the principles of regulation and monitoring. It argues that high values and ideals are better expressed by actions than by mere dialogue. Islamic Relief Worldwide showed what can be done when it was appointed to represent all the major British relief agencies on television to launch a joint appeal for the Kashmir earthquake in 2005. Failure to recognize the potential of Islamic charities means losing a significant opportunity to defuse the purported "clash of civilizations".

This chapter explores the life of Thomas Becket during his time in Canterbury.

The list of the military heroes produced by the Rebellion was long, and such men were widely celebrated in contemporary military and popular sources. There also emerged during the Rebellion three groups of soldiers who came to be feted above all others as representatives of collective military heroism: Highland Scots, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas. Stories that celebrated their valour, ferocity and gallantry articulated new connections between British soldiers and the most loyal Indian soldiers, and between military service in the Empire, ideal masculinity and racial superiority. Although there were many such military figures who filled the pages of despatches, newspapers and journals, two men dominated national attention to a far greater extent than any of the others - Henry Havelock and Colin Campbell. As a result of narratives produced by both Havelock and Campbell, Highlanders quickly became associated with manly heroism during the suppression of the Rebellion.

This chapter focuses on the policing of Canada where English and Irish styles of policing intermingled, in particular after 1867 when Canada became a nation in its own right with the passage of the British North America Act. The first professional police force in Canada, the Toronto Police, appropriated Metropolitan Police practices as well as drawing on the experiences of former members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Overall, there were real links between the RIC and the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) in terms of the export of officers, the organisation and role of the force. In 1869 a military-style constabulary was felt to be the most appropriate way of securing control of the north-west, a vast swathe of territories that had been under the jurisdiction of the Hudson Bay Company since 1660. Rural areas became a provincial responsibility and led to the development of provincial police forces.

This chapter tracks author's own growth and development as a filmmaker. In his first book, The New Documentary in Action, the author had looked at how films are made, in a fairly simple and straightforward way. While reviewing his own background and film education the author realized that, apart from working with Terry Macartney-Filgate and George Stoney, he hadn't seen much of other filmmakers at work. A pioneer of cinéma vérité, Terry had shot some superb films for the National Film Board of Canada, including the two classics, Blood and Fire and The Backbreaking Leaf. Of all the filmmakers he interviewed, one man in particular interested the author. This was a Jewish filmmaker called Robert Vas, who had fled to England from Budapest after the Hungarian uprisings of 1956. After life in Jerusalem, the author took a job for two years teaching documentary film at York University in Toronto.

This chapter presents an annotated translation of The Book of Bishop Bonizo of Sutri which is entitled ‘To a Friend', perhaps the best known of the polemics of the Investiture Contest.

The author makes films, because he loves the process, the excitement, the discoveries and friendships along the way. In trying to increase film returns he tried everything. He also tried distributing by video on demand (VOD), iTunes, and websites. MEDIMED serves as a film market and also as a pitching opportunity. The flamboyant decoration of the Maricel mini-castle creates a great atmosphere, so many contacts are made, and good friendships blossom over a bottle of cheap red wine. At the second conference he attended, he met a man who changed his way of thinking about docs. When he was reviewing Gary Gladman's missiles, he realized that his advice was so good, it was well worth sharing. He asked Gary if he would give his permission for him to reprint some of his letters.