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Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods
History & The Arts

Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods

...History shows that far more diverse and heavier losses than anything we know about today were attributed to menstruation. 4. Bleeding like a sacrificed beast was a good thing The classical Greek medical writers also mentioned the ideal of a woman bleeding “like a sacrificed beast”. To the modern reader, that sounds unpleasantly bloody. For a woman in ancient Greece,...
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Pathways To Success in Higher Education
Education & Development

Pathways To Success in Higher Education

...history, literature, music and religions. This pathway should give you more understanding of the world we live in and how we got to where we are. Try out our Arts and Humanities 'tasters' here. Interested? Head over to the Arts & Humanities Pathway. Social Science and Psychology The Social Science and Psychology Pathway tackles some of the key question in the study of...
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Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs
Digital & Computing

Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs

...history, so far the discipline of Interaction Design (ID) has only concerned itself with designing interactive systems for humans and animal technology has seldom taken the user-centred approach developed by the discipline of ID. However, this is now changing, as the emerging discipline of Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI) is expanding the design of interactive systems...
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The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...history (e.g. events held at the Hippodrome of Constantinople during the Byzantine period, the outlandish Cotswold Games of the 17th century or the Wenlock Games of the mid-19th century), the Olympic spirit had remained largely dormant. De Coubertin’s efforts to stage a modern Olympic Games were initially met with apathy and limited success. However, after a passionate...
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The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...history of ideas?...[Portrait of Adam Smith (artist unknown), circa 1800] Adam Smith, unknown artist, circa 1800 Adam Smith has been on the £20 note since 2007. He is the first Scot ever to appear on a Bank of England note. But controversially, Smith is not a unifying figure – although maybe he should be. He is widely hailed as the inventor of modern economics, and in...
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Brexit: On the vote in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: On the vote in Wales

...history of the British labour movement and the British working class more generally – may be unpalatable, but one cannot really understand the social conservatism and xenophobia which motivated the leave vote in working class areas without confronting the history of imperialism, not to mention the steady drip of nationalism (sometimes twee, sometimes overtly jingoistic)...
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Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...histories of colonialism and its contemporary impacts, this will then lead us to shift our actions away from reproducing colonial harm. But we cannot just read ourselves out of colonisation, nor into decolonisation. The intellectual dimension of decolonisation is only part of the work. To a certain extent, it is understandable that this dimension becomes the focus of most...
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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...History Month 2020 I was invited to present on the concept of decolonising computing. Transcript In offering an answer to the question of what it might mean to decolonise computing, I will begin by distinguishing my own approach from that of others, including those who participated in a workshop that convened in 2016 in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication...
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