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What have big meals got to do with Christmas?
History & The Arts

What have big meals got to do with Christmas?

...family gatherings can exacerbate tensions and even animosities. It is not only that gift giving can become competitive or that it can result in disappointment for those who get new mittens instead of a new TV. It is more that some people think that Christmas feasting is a distraction from the “glad tidings” they associate with Jesus’ birth. Some of these people...
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Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care

...family, friends or a health professional. For an older person and their friends or family, knowing where there might be difficulties in undertaking the 5 Pillars, means you are able to ask for the right kind of support to help you age as healthily as possible. For professionals, reflecting on and filling gaps in your current knowledge and practice in relation to health...
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Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...History, as well as the images we associate with it, should not be underestimated here. While a British business tycoon will think of Ronald Kipling’s India when a deal in the subcontinent is proposed, pictures of Stalin’s communist regime will cloud their thinking over a similar proposal stemming from Hungary. A yet unanswered question is whether the distinct path...
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There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters
Society, Politics & Law

There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters

...history, and make it impossible to stay in her partners’ household. The rules also make it harder for women to establish a right to reside if they combine domestic care for the elderly or disabled or being a single parent with part time work. Women and children are already overlooked, and are at significant risk of falling through the cracks in the new regime. Trade is...
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Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...history shows that, whereas literature’s preoccupation with sleep is certainly not new, the humanities have been slow to respond to it. Medical sleep research over the past sixty years has measured our sleep and sleeping habits in an attempt to decipher “the nature of sleep.” However, the inherent paradox of sleep science, as Greaney demonstrates, is that sleep...
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A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws
History & The Arts

A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws

...history month in February 2017, the government announced it would pardon 49,000 men of sexual offences for homosexuality. While this is an important nod to justice, it is also a reminder of everyday injustices suffered by LGBT people in Britain when it was still a crime to be gay. Nearly 50 years ago, in July 1967, the government voted to partly decriminalise...
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English monsters
History & The Arts

English monsters

...history plays...[An English mastiff with a full moon background] A modern-day English Mastiff References to dogs in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries are frequent and diverse in character; many are to be found in arresting contexts bound up with displays of power and informal, ruthless responses to the poor. From the early Tudor morality play Magnificence...
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Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...histories. Connectivity Logical dependence between components or elements (including sub-systems) within a system. Difficulty A situation considered as a bounded and well defined problem where it is assumed that it is usually clear who is involved and what would constitute a solution within a given time frame. Emergent properties Properties which are revealed at a...
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