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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...educated at a convent near Ravenna, Italy, where, at age five, she died of a fever. Byron arranged for the body to be sent back to England, with a degree of pomp in its final leg that was to foreshadow Byron’s own funeral procession (Byron himself died in Greece exactly two years to the day after Allegra). Allegra’s little coffin was transported from the dock in...
The Partition of British India: Timeline
History & The Arts

The Partition of British India: Timeline

...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’ created alongside the...
Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete

...Education Review, 13 (3), pp.369-384. Eccles, J. A., Futterman, T., Goff, R., Kaczala, S., Meece, C., & Midgley, J. (1983). Expectations, values, and academic behaviors. Achievement and achievement motivation, 283-331. Eccles, J. S. (1993). School and family effects on the ontogeny of children's interests, self-perceptions, and activity choices Nebraska Symposium on...
Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...educated minds among his adherents, Mrs. Eddy has had the like among hers from the beginning. Her Church is as well equipped in those particulars as is any other Church. Claimants can always count upon a following, it doesn't matter who they are, nor what they claim, nor whether they come with documents or without. It was always so. Down out of the long-vanished past,...
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...education campaigns will help people choose to eat more healthily. No one is protesting against Public Health England’s Eatwell Guide, which provides advice on healthy eating, because it’s useful and we’re perfectly free to ignore it. Our hope is that everyone, of their own free will, will choose to adopt a more healthy diet, and that this confluence of individual...
Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

...Technology 50 2 Food 50+ 3 Technology 50 4 Food 50 5 Food 50 6 Food 50+ 7 Technology 50 8 Technology 50 9 Technology 50+ 10 Food 50+ See the following cross table, which elegantly summarises the information of our sample data. Table 8 Cross table for sample firms SECTOR 50 EMPLOYEES 50+ EMPLOYEES TOTAL FIRMS Technology 4 1 5 Food 2 3 5 Total 6 4 10 ......
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...Education programmes in schools, the French baron Pierre de Coubertin campaigned for the revival of the Olympics. The Ancient Games had been banned in the 390s CE by Theodosius I (along with all other expressions of non-Christian cults), and, except for a few re-creations dotted through history (e.g. events held at the Hippodrome of Constantinople during the Byzantine...
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...education are more likely to score highly on the measures of trust, social expenditure and political interest and they are also more ready to invest in energy-saving measures in support of the environment. Social consumption is highest among pensioners. Neighbourhood participation is more closely related to age, increasing noticeably among people aged 50 and above....
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