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Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...history filmmaker, exploring wildlife in Britain, and the role of social media in connecting with new audiences...Abbie Barnes Abbie is a 19 year old semi-professional filmmaker and photographer who specialises in promotional shorts, and wildlife conservation and expedition-style productions. She currently produces every aspect of her work, from research, script writing,...
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Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...families falsely characterised as disengaged and ‘hard to reach’. Those who actively pushed through such perceptions to advocate for their children, even in the face of structural barriers, found their tenacity mischaracterised as ‘aggression’, and there were consistent accounts of Black children being given less latitude and understanding for their ‘autistic...
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‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...Family and Buckingham Palace. In 2017 Prince Charles made media headlines after asking writer Anita Sethi where she was from at the 2017 Commonwealth People’s Forum in London. When she replied that she was from Manchester, UK, the then Prince chuckled and replied, ‘Well you don’t look like it’. He was hurriedly ushered away and Anita, whose mother came to England...
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Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...history had to be reconstructed from the few that remained. Nevertheless, the fossil record was sufficient to reveal the broad succession of forms through time, in logical agreement with the evolutionary sequence of successively derived groups expected from comparative anatomy and embryology – for example, the first mammals preceded by reptiles, they by primitive...
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Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport

...history of the Isle of Man TT: stories of legends and leathers. But the story didn’t end there. In 1978, Hillary Musson became the 2nd woman to race a solo motorbike round the TT finishing in an even more respectable 15th place. Fast forward to 2005, when Maria Costello made history as the first woman to claim a podium finish in a solo race at the Isle of Man TT – one...
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Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...2025). Spivak, Guyatri C. and R. Morris (2010) ‘Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea’: 21-78. Spivak (2010) "Can the subaltern speak?" Revised edition, from "History" chapter of critique of postcolonial Reason, in Morris (Ed) "Can the subaltern speak?" Reflections on the history of an idea, pages 21-81, Columbia University Press, New York....
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Negotiating trade deals
Money & Business

Negotiating trade deals

...are negotiated without democratic scrutiny or accountability. Just as worrying, these deals are reached by unelected figures, further putting into question their ability to be publicly debated and influenced. Alvaro Guzman Bastida discusses these concerns in his article for Al Jazeera America “History’s largest trade agreements are being negotiated in secret”....
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The Irish Gothic collection on OpenLearn
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic collection on OpenLearn

...history of the Gothic, and introduce key features of Gothic storytelling. In Part 1, you will Discover the basic characteristics of the Gothic in literature Practice identifying gothic tropes in works of art Learn about the uncanny, a common Gothic term Trace influences on the Irish Gothic in the 18th and 19th centuries Find Gothic features and inspirations in story arcs...
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