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The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...adult male works a loom.] Figure 1 Cottage industry: textile production often took place under what is frequently termed the ‘putting-out system’ in a semi-domestic setting, with female spinners and male weavers manufacturing cloth. This image, titled ‘The art of stocking-frame-work-knitting’, comes from volume 7 of the Universal Magazine (August 1750). Many...
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Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...adults are learning English in the workplace or in their free time. A 'wave of English' is now building up. Within a decade nearly a third of the world population will all be trying to learn English at the same time. But looking further ahead, the wave of learners may subside almost as quickly as it came. If the project to make English a second language for the world's...
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Working mothers in Scotland's railways
Society, Politics & Law

Working mothers in Scotland's railways

...adult children [Marion Parker with Nicola as and a child and her brother]Marion Parker with Nicola (author) and her brother In 1989 when my mother joined the railway, I was only 1 year old and my brothers were 2 and 13. My father was studying for a full-time degree, and later became a full-time Health and Safety Executive. Reflecting over the years my Mum can’t believe...
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Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

...adults in the UK own a mobile phone; and over three-quarters of those are smartphones. And while mobile phones were originally designed to facilitate phone calls on the go, Deloitte’s mobile consumer survey (2016) suggests a third of smartphone users don’t actually make traditional voice calls at all. Instead, our phones are used as mobile computers, for checking...
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The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...for a party or group other than Labour, or opposed to Labour” is enough proof to have you expelled, then we had all better be careful about praising so much as the individual policies of another party. That could go for Liz Kendall’s supporters just as much as Jeremy Corbyn’s. This article is a personal viewpoint, and was originally published at OpenDemocracy....
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The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate
Society, Politics & Law

The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate

...care about. Perhaps it’s time for the media professionals to catch up with the candidates and start listening to what average Americans want to hear. [Rand Paul] Rand Paul Issues ignored: housing and inequality Mechele Dickerson, University of Texas at Austin Other than the fact that they attacked the moderators more than they attacked each other, perhaps the biggest...
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Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...cares anymore about recognising its special status as a former member state or great power. Especially if it uses as a bargaining chip the threat of a race to the bottom on such policies as corporate taxation, the continent’s willingness to cut it slack will swiftly diminish. This would be freeriding in its purest form and represent an admission that the UK has...
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Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?
History & The Arts

Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?

...care, access to bathrooms and employment and housing because of all of these…misconceptions that people have about who we really are.” [The Conversation]As the future of thousands of active duty service members hangs in the balance, it’s more imperative than ever to understand how the public responds to media representations of transgender people. This article was...
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