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Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?

...change from optimism over the Commonwealth and over Britain as a jet-age great power in the 1940s-50s, towards comedy and cynicism over empire by the 1960s. Starting with the Empire and Commonwealth Annuals of the early postwar years, it ends with Carry on Up the Khyber and the Flashman novels...Prejudices and assumptions from the heyday of Empire died a slow death as...
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The psychology of World Cup fans
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of World Cup fans

...change in attitudes has to do with a change in our social identity. Social identities are aspects of our personality that relate in some way to our social surroundings, for example, our nationality, the organisation we work for, or a club we are members of. People are usually nicer towards people that share their social identity (the “ingroup”), and tend to be meaner...
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The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...changing their minds. Labour at high school, fighting on the outside at uni, and then back into Labour – it’s a well-trodden path. By definition, everyone now joining Labour is, to an extent, changing their mind; many are being swayed by the real possibility of an anti-austerity alternative in the form of Corbyn. Across the course of the campaign, many thousands have...
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Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

...changes in velocity? It seems to depend on how you are looking at it. That led to the idea of a “reference frame” – the stage on which the objects you are looking at play out their roles. There may of course be other frames in which the objects appear to behave differently, so we need a description of all the frames, and the way to relate them. The trick was to...
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Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...changed. First, the poem was written to help raise money for a journalist—Finnerty—who was critical of Britain’s military commanders and who was imprisoned for libel as a result. With the increasing focus on military issues in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and elsewhere can we be sure that important criticisms of the military are not being similarly gagged today? Note...
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US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...changes in terms of persuasive personalities and effective leadership style, public opinion is too biased, the political system is too complicated, power is too decentralized, and interests are too diverse for one person, no matter how extraordinary, to dominate. Neither the public nor Congress is likely to respond to the White House’s efforts at persuasion. Presidents...
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Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...change; Covid-19 lockdown was introduced, and this 12-week period of safety ended those times for respite. Isolation for many increased, enforcing another dramatic change in the life of a carer. Due to lack of respite care due to lockdown it was no longer possible to venture out to engage in exercise or physical activity, or for a social meeting with friends, and such the...
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Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
OpenLearn Ireland

Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora

...change in the 1800s. Find out why in... A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s What did it feel like to be Irish in America over the last century and a half? Find out how the experience changed in... Adaptation and Assimilation: The Catholic Irish experience in the United States The Irish undoubtedly left their mark on American society....
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