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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...manage to move to the countryside as you did, find what they’re looking for there is something that you’ll have to look into. Terry: So I left Coventry and moved to the countryside And this is where I came. Hayfield. And this environment is a lot different to Coventry. Hills instead of tower blocks, real trees, neighbours who said hello and looked out for me, I...
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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...management of an Irish estate was frequently left in the hands of middlemen, often Catholic, who focused their attention on maximising rents from tenant farmers rather than on agricultural improvements. These farmers in turn rented small potato plots of their land to an impoverished class of labourers or ‘cottiers’ in return for the labour services required to produce...
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Making a difference: Youth participation
Education & Development

Making a difference: Youth participation

...manage to make, no matter how small, can make a massive difference to someone else's life. So have courage." For more information on the Radio 4 programme, Bringing Up Britain, see the series page and episode guide here. Read Dr Victoria Cooper's article asking 'Do we really listen to children and young people?' from the the Open University’s Children’s Research...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...manages to convey the rhythms of the original Irish, explaining the great importance of rhythm, assonance (use of similar-sounding vowels) and half-rhymes in Irish poetry. You may also remember that later on in the interview, Ní Dhomhnaill says Muldoon is right to translate the title as ‘The Language Issue’ when it could be rendered as ‘The Language Question’, as...
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Women in the Railway in Scotland During both World Wars
Society, Politics & Law

Women in the Railway in Scotland During both World Wars

...management and train driving (Kasprzak, 2013), as traditional patriarchal attitudes continued to be challenged, not least by women themselves who carried the fight to policymakers. Seeking a change in the law that would put an end to gender-based discrimination, the Sex Discrimination Act was eventually passed in 1975. References, Sources and Further Reading Hayward, V....
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The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective

...managed by The Parks Trust. The park has its own volunteers, the Friends of Great Linford Manor Park (FoGLMP), who work closely with The Parks Trust at activities and events, act as ambassadors for the park and are helping to make the park more dementia friendly by helping at initiatives such as the Café. Parks Trust staff also help at the Café and work with the Open...
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Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics
Science, Maths & Technology

Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics

...Management Strategies for Environmental Sustainability. Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 4(4) 100142. Available from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666016421000645 [Accessed 27 November 2024]. Kolforn, A. (2019) File:-2019-11-03 Alternative Christmas Tree in Cromer (2).JPG - Wikimedia Commons Available from
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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

...manage digital stress in our related article. References Andrews, S., Ellis, D. A., Shaw, H., & Piwek, L. (2015). Beyond self-report: tools to compare estimated and real-world smartphone use. PloS one, 10(10), e0139004. Appel, H., Gerlach, A. L., & Crusius, J. (2016). The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression. Current Opinion in...
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