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Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...education. [EMB East African Transport Old] 'East African Transport Old Style', by Adrian Allinson, from the 'Colonial Progress Brings Home Prosperity' series of posters; 60 x 40 ins, displayed December 1930-January 1931; Waterlow and Sons Ltd; EMB ref BR1; (TNA) CO956/211 Though many posters depict non-Europeans in much more flattering light than the above – some...
Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?

...important lessons from the improvements made in other sports such as rugby. For example, the doctors are allowed a longer concussion assessment time, there are temporary substitutions, and the Rugby Football Union (RFU) has a comprehensive educational concussion awareness programme called HEADCASE. Perhaps football does need to raise its game, sooner rather than later....
Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...review published in Feminism & Psychology Reclassifying upward mobility: femininity and the neo-liberal subject Valerie Walkerdine writing in Gender and Education 2003 15, pages 237-248 Why more and more women are using pornography by Tanith Carey in The Guardian, April 7th 2011 You might also want to look at Rosalind Gill's book Gender and the Media, published by Polity...
The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care

...Education and Counseling, 53(2), 239–244. Clement, D., & Arvinen-Barrow, M. (2013). Sport medicine team influences in psychological rehabilitation - A multidisciplinary approach . In M. Arvinen-Barrow & N. Walker (Eds.), The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation (pp. 156–170). London: Routledge. Green, A. J., Jackson, D. A., & Klaber Moffett, J. A. (2008). An...
The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...educational achievement with the children’s disrupted schooling and anti-Roma bullying by their peers. And the Westminster parliament, in 2019, identified that Roma victims of domestic abuse face greater barriers than the non-Roma. It is harder for them to secure the employment and housing they need to leave their abuser. The centrality of family and community to Roma...
Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes
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Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes

...education – highly unusual at the time. He later moved, with his Yorkshire wife, to London to live with and work for Thomas Pitt, cousin of then Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger. By 1821 he had seemingly reached the highest levels of British gentry, becoming an usher at the coronation of King George IV. His 2015 biography, ‘Richmond Unchained’, suggests that...
Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?

...it does not offer a complete picture of their needs. All of this individual’s subsequent difficulties may be attributed to the anxiety, without considering that they might, in fact, be autistic. This could also mean that some autistic people don’t have access to the support they need in education, at work or in society, because their needs are not fully recognised. ....
Eid al-Fitr
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Eid al-Fitr

...Education ‘schools must treat absence as authorised when it is due to religious observance’. In May 2022 US President Biden revived the practice, abandoned by his predecessor, of holding a reception at the White House to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr. References and further resources References Douglass, S.L. (2002) ‘Holidays and Religious Observances’, World Eras,...
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