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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...money. Voluntary and community-led interventions which have directly engaged with people in their own community have often proven to be the most effective of all (see for example Outside Chance, Liz Dronfield, 1981). Because abolitionist alternatives are not grounded in the deliberate infliction of pain, inevitably they will be much more humane than any prison sentence...
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Article 12 mins
Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...money ran out. We managed for another year, but the community became disheartened. We found ourselves in competition with other cultural events in Cardiff, that had much more funding, and often overlooked the black artists and performers right on their doorstep. In the end, Carnival just stopped happening. ‘To paint a more positive picture.’ However, six years ago, we...
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Article 10 mins
Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...money, we might lose a friendship, a marriage, a house, a country (during/after war) ... we will all lose something in this life. One of the permanent losses we are faced with is when someone dies. I find that in British society, we shy away from this death and dying topic. When we experience a death in our lives, we often get these common phrases from people... ‘I am...
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Article 5 mins
Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...business, Green had constructed a giant balloon which could be inflated with coal gas (much cheaper than hydrogen) and begun a residency at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in 1836. His long distance balloon journey in the same year, an unprecedented 18-hour drift across Europe with two passengers (one of whom, Thomas Monck Mason, wrote a lengthy and fascinating account of the...
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Article 5 mins
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...business as usual scenario the indication from the available climate models that the Arctic will become ice free in summer, around the mid of the 21st century, which is … RH: Free of sea ice? TS: Free of sea ice. This is an environmental condition which is fundamentally different from what we now know and what we have known for many millennia where we had a clear...
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Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...business and home ownership for some Black people, in particular in the Moss Side area of Manchester. Life for me during this period was very isolating because I was a young mother with three children and no family support. I felt the available childcare provision at the time was not adequate or safe; therefore, I refused to leave my children with a childminder. My...
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Article 15 mins
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...money out of local areas or the wider cuts that are taking place in the period of austerity. Geoff Andrews: We are going to talk a bit about class later, you mentioned it. But it is really emotive language, isn’t it? What you are saying, it is part of a wider political strategy to, well, justify welfare policies. Owen Jones: Absolutely. And the culmination of this...
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Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...busy at work or even at home, numbers are everywhere. It’s impossible to avoid them. From knowing what size clothes to shop for to working out how much money you have to spend, it’s hard to imagine a world without numbers. A basic understanding of maths and numbers is important for so many decisions we make in our everyday lives. And whatever it is you’re shopping...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs