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English monsters
History & The Arts

English monsters

...work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries are frequent and diverse in character; many are to be found in arresting contexts bound up with displays of power and informal, ruthless responses to the poor. From the early Tudor morality play Magnificence (1520-22), in which Poverty complains, ‘I am baited with dogs at every man’s gate’, through to the closing of the...
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Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?
History & The Arts

Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?

...social media. Hands up who went to a newspaper site and stuck with it throughout the day when news of David Bowie’s death broke. No one, right? Everyone was on Twitter and Facebook where the news first emerged. In an era when even the web is starting to feel more like a reference library than a breaking news platform, what is newsprint bringing to the table? David Bowie...
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20 things you might not know about Belfast
History & The Arts

20 things you might not know about Belfast

...worked - and got him a knighthood in the process... 5. Lord Kelvin came up with the 2nd law of thermodynamics in Belfast This British mathematician and engineer, born in the city of Belfast, was the first British scientist to be elevated to the House of Lords. His statement of the physical law concerning heat and energy came in 1854. 6. Tourists spent over £430 million...
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Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott
Health, Sports & Psychology

Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott

...working-class district of Dublin), Lynott lived at the intersection of race and class in a predominantly white and conservative Ireland. While his upbringing instilled in him ‘an acute sense of national and gender identity’ (Smyth, 2005, p. 39), his skin colour and illegitimacy made him the target of racial and social prejudice. Lynott’s music became a way for him...
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A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...social and cultural experience for many Western people. Their religious lives were no exception. The era has often been presented as one of significant religious crisis for the dominant tradition in the West: Christianity. In the case of Britain, for example, the eminent social historian Callum Brown spoke of the beginnings of a rapid demise of Christianity in the late...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...social need: disability and old age. This has set me wondering how I might cope with the experience – not for an hour or a day, but for months, years. Not tomorrow, but very soon, I will have to get used to the idea of living with robots, most likely when I’m elderly and/or infirm. Contemplating this, my line of thought has surprised and disturbed me. Modern medicine...
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Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...work of leadership in social change organizations’, Leadership, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 131–70. Rosener, J. (1995) ‘Sexual static’, in Grint, K. (ed.) Leadership: Classical, Contemporary and Critical Approaches, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 211–30. Saner, E. (2013) ‘Camila Batmanghelidjh: “I chose the vocation”’, The Guardian, 22 February, [Online]....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...work in your local primary school? Are you thinking about becoming a teaching assistant, or becoming a teacher in the future? In this free course, Primary education: listening and observing, you will have the chance to look inside primary schools, and watch and listen to children and teaching staff. You’ll also find out what head teachers look for in people who want to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs