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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...public life’. She was explicitly making a link between the displays of vibrant colour, which energised and educated all who saw them, and the argument the women were making about their rights to equality with men, as speakers and voters. However, she was also keen to stress the poetry and splendour of a banner: ‘A banner is a thing to float in the wind, to flicker in...
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What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?

...public security. Settled and pre-settled status The official date of withdrawal – March 29, 2019 – is not the deadline for accruing the five years needed for permanent residency. Instead, if EU citizens and their families have been continuously resident in the UK for five years by December 31, 2020 – the end of the Brexit implementation period – then they will be...
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...publications/tech-news/events/what-to-know-about-the-scientist-who-invented-the-term-software-engineering Accessed 28 May 2019 Ceruzzi, Paul (2016) The “Rope Mother” Margaret Hamilton. March 11, 2016, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Ref: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/rope-mother-margaret-hamilton Accessed 27 May 2019 Creighton, Jolene (2016)...
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Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...public resource and a public trust whose security and stability are not to be subverted to the service of private special interests. As customers and users, when evaluating new technologies, systems, products and services, we must look beyond the attractive benefits, conveniences or cost savings they might offer. We must assess their potential risks, vulnerabilities,...
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The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?
Money & Business

The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?

...public debt, enabling governments to borrow cheaply. In principle, this action by the ECB should have encouraged firms start investing again (after the interruption when private-sector banks stopped lending), and enabled Eurozone governments to inject more demand into their recession-hit economies by borrowing cheaply and spending more than they raised in tax. However,...
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Why do volcanoes erupt?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do volcanoes erupt?

...Public domain]] Rocks on Vulcano, a volcanic island in the Med [Image:LucaLuca in Public domain] Other styles of explosive eruption are determined by the relationship between volatiles and magma. Sometimes a volcanic conduit is choked by debris from earlier eruptions, and this is cleared out by explosive release of gas from an underlying magma chamber. Little or no fresh...
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The Partition of British India: Timeline
History & The Arts

The Partition of British India: Timeline

...public spending on education and lower taxes on the mass of poverty-stricken peasantry. 1905 Partition of Bengal. First attempted break up of a province of India by the British colonial government. This is a response to the primarily Bengal-based rising nationalist movement that was challenging colonial rule. New Muslim-majority province of ‘East Bengal and Assam’...
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Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...public space – especially as ancient Greek men regarded a woman’s mind as devious. The lesson from tragedy is that when women are removed from their natural environment of the household (oikos) and come to occupy any sort of prominent position in the city (polis), then they become most dangerous. In Homer, too, as well as in Euripides, women are shunned and feared...
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