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The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
History & The Arts

The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End

...attention to the celebration of armistice is always balanced by attention to its silences – permanently encoded in the UK from 1919 in the two-minute silence – leading to a sense, overall, of the ambiguity of armistice. A Man Could Stand Up- is a ‘kaleidoscopic vision of society at a climactic moment’, as the cover blurb notes. It offers colourful, loud,...
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Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...attention to the teacher right now instead of passing notes to a friend. While this seemingly contradictory behavior might seem to be a human design flaw, it’s actually a feature: Thinking (including thinking about who you are) is sensitively attuned to what individual situations have to offer. After all, right now it might be more important to keep up a friendship than...
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Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...attention as a key moment of injustice for black women as two all-white, all-male juries failed to indict the white men. With the world watching, the stories of sexual violence are being illuminated in the Hollywood spotlight. But, as the story of Recy Taylor suggests, there are limits to speaking out within a deeply unjust world. Not all survivors are safe to speak out....
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The women of the Gorbals’ Campaign for Social Justice, 1923
Society, Politics & Law

The women of the Gorbals’ Campaign for Social Justice, 1923

...attention of the readers of The Weekly News to the impact of poverty on families. They knew, he said, the “dangers that beset youngsters who have to go out into the world through force of circumstance to keep the home going”. Lily grew up knowing “nothing of the ways of men” as her hard-working mother “like many another working woman, was too busy and too...
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Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...attention to the history of our slavery – shows that institutions can lead in correcting social injustice. Its research showed that the university benefitted from slavery and it has set up educational reparative justice links with the university of the West Indies and with the local community for scholarships for black students. Many city councils in Scotland are...
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Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes

...attention. Until very recently, they were pretty much unheard of. They are all Black sportspeople from Britain’s past and, like many others, their stories have generally been forgotten, untold and uncelebrated. This isn’t something limited to sport – there is a widespread absence of Black history in popular accounts of British history, as discussed in a 2016 BBC...
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Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...attention that Dutch artists bestowed on the visual appearance of even the most mundane objects: Velvet, metallic lustre, light, horses, servants, old women, peasants blowing smoke from cutty pipes, the glitter of wine in a transparent glass, chaps in dirty jackets playing with old cards – these and hundreds of other things are brought before our eyes in these pictures,...
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Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...attention to cases such as those of Sandra Bland and Rekia Boyd. She highlights the relative invisibility of cases like this when it comes to not only those in academia but also in terms of what captures the media’s attention, the response (or lack) of policymakers and the general public. Sandra Bland died of asphyxiation in police custody, yet her death was ruled as...
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