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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...thinking about how his local environment was changing was related to thinking about the wider world, about people on the other side of the globe. I thought about how little attention I pay to the natural world around me. I doubted that I’d notice any changes in my local river, but knew that I’d spot a new café opening next to it. When I first read about the changing...
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How to celebrate Halloween with young children
Education & Development

How to celebrate Halloween with young children

...thinking about costumes, decorations and making the most of daytime activities. When it comes to costumes, encourage children to think about fun, imaginative ideas, such as superheroes, animals, or characters from books. Talk about the idea that costumes are only pretend, and that behind the mask or under the hat it is just a person. When decorating, avoid blood-stained...
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Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...thinks the Baby, so like Albert. The accounts from Manchester are dreadful - such disturbances, as also in some other parts, near Sheffield, &c Drove out with Papa & Alexandrine, Albert & Ernest, &c, riding. We drove to the Stud & showed Papa all the horses. We also looked at the Hunters. I never felt anything like the heat On returning, found Sir Robert Peel & some of...
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Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...thinking can be linked to new forms of investigation...My project is quite an unusual one for an academic. It doesn’t involve designing and conducting experiments or interviews, but it does include several different kinds of research. It fairly rarely involves me writing in academic language, but it does draw on academic theory. It doesn’t require much in the way of...
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Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?
History & The Arts

Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?

...think that Barbenheimer signals a reverse in fortune for theatrical screenings. But can Barbenheimer save cinema? What kind of cinema are we talking about saving? And does it really need saving at all? ['Barbenheimer' text in a pink Barbie branded font]Barbenheimer text in a pink Barbie-branded typeface. It’s important to note that most analysts believe Barbenheimer has...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse

...think public opinion would have overridden whatever they may have felt. Walter Carpenter They couldn’t get it out of their minds, the fate of this bridge was sealed. The National Transportation Safety Board had no other recourse than to say they had to condemn the bridge because they couldn’t prove it was safe, and they were no doubt right in coming to that...
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On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...think that the whole debate is little more than a blue on blue civil war and that progressive politicians should not even be sharing a platform with pro-EU Conservatives. The idea of a Tory civil war certainly seems credible after John Major’s extended and brutal assault on people in his own party on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. Perhaps his most telling and harsh...
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Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...Think about these issues in relation to another place or other places. What is being represented/promoted? Who gains and who loses? 3. The main points to grasp from this programme are: that ‘image and identity’ are central to our geographical imagination; that images and identities are socially constructed and are not neutral or objective: how we define a place...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs