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Remembering Ali: How do The Philippines remember The Thrilla In Manila?
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Ali: How do The Philippines remember The Thrilla In Manila?

...publicity it would generate for the country. Ronnie Nathanielsz, the government-appointed liaison officer of ‘Thrilla in Manila’, wrote that then President Ferdinand Marcos wanted the international event to demonstrate that the country was peaceful and prosperous despite the declaration of martial law: …he wanted the “Thrilla in Manila” so he could ‘show the...
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Representations of hell in Christian art
History & The Arts

Representations of hell in Christian art

...will appear in a two-volume publication by Cambridge University Press: Hell in the Byzantine World: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean (general editor: Angeliki Lymberopoulou, expected date of publication 2020). This volume will be accompanied by a password protected, open access (i.e. free of charge) database. Watch this space!...
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Business Bursts: Failure
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Failure

...public debts, rising public deficits and governments have limited room for manoeuvre for boosting the economy. In particular, they're limited in their room for manoeuvre for creating opportunities out of, or new phoenixes out of the ashes of the recession. Now that brings us to a famous economist called Joseph Schumpeter who turned the phrase creative destruction, that...
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Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...public awareness. I think if you asked most people, “what’s the state of the environment? What’s the state of biodiversity?” I think most people are aware that it’s in trouble, that it’s dropping severely. I think that the number of stories about that have probably dropped, interestingly, since the recession. I think it tends to go cyclically depending on how...
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Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...public commitment’ to diversity more generally, with inclusion of members from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and those with disabilities. I always think to have the right culture you need a mix of males and females, and you need people from different backgrounds. An athlete needs to see someone who looks like them - whether it’s colour, sex or...
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EU Referendum - Sovereignty
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Sovereignty

...health of financial firms under the Prudential Regulation Agency. But it’s also too old and wise an institution to take political sides in the Brexit debate. The assessment it published last October states clearly that EU membership has made the UK economy more open to trade, which helps it become more competitive and innovative. But it also points out that greater...
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...public discussions during the 1780s. There was a fascination with the recent take-off of the cotton mills, which tended to be discerned in two ways: the steep rise in exports of cotton goods and imports of raw cotton, and the new technologies used in the cotton manufacture. For example, in a passage added to Anderson’s The Origin of Commerce in 1789, the journalist...
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Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...public view of a major work by a near contemporary of both these artists on November 10 2015—the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—was met with an air of such disinterest (The Guardian newspaper excepted). [Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley] There were brief mentions and some excerpts were read out on BBC Radio 4, but no welcoming comments appeared from...
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