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The history of soapmaking
History & The Arts

The history of soapmaking

...centred in large towns like Bristol, Coventry and London, with each making its own variety. Large areas of British woodland were destroyed to meet the growing demand for wood ashes, causing a country-wide shortage of winter fuel. Italy, Spain and France also became early soap-producing centres. Plentiful supplies of high quality olive oil and barilla ashes (from which...
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Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...researched how otherkin, and others, have been viewed through the centuries. ...As social beings, a sense of identity plays an important role in our relations – and in our own happiness. But identity doesn’t have to be narrowly human. In an essay looking at the groups that exist on the edge of conventional boundaries, and are often subject to prurience and ridicule,...
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Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...researching the storytelling patterns of my community. I spent days trying to persuade my grandma to tell me some of the stories from her time. But she’s always been moody, and she wouldn’t comply. Then one morning, out of the blue, she started telling me stories. After the first one, I had this gut feeling that I had to record it, even though I didn’t know how I...
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Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...research into the measurement of innovation. It is used by organisations such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) to inform innovation policy. This sets out four main types of innovation (OECD, 2005): Product innovation – a good or service that is new or significantly improved. This is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...centred around John Maclean and some of the leading shop stewards such as Willie Gallacher, which undoubtedly came to hope for an extra-parliamentary, Soviet-style challenge. This was a minority view but for those looking for evidence of an extra-parliamentary, insurrectionary tradition it tends to be a focus of attention. Indeed, for some later left-wing activists and...
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World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan

...children. Having received an excellent education, she took to writing verses to earn a living and these were well received. This success helped her become one of the first professional female writers in Europe. Her patrons included Louis I, Duke d’Orléans; the Duke de Berry; Philip II the Bold of Burgundy; Queen Isabella of Bavaria and, in England, the 4th Earl of...
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Sniffing out signs of life
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out signs of life

...research on VOCs? First, we must first capture the VOCs. They are found either in the air or produced by a solid or liquid. Air samples are easy to collect; we simply use a pump to collect them either into a bag or on to special materials (called sorbents) that hold on to the VOCs until they can be analysed. Solid or liquid samples are sealed into special bags and the...
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Between humanity and space
Science, Maths & Technology

Between humanity and space

...researcher in space ethics. Her research considers the future of space exploration and the relationship of humans and space. She reflected on how she came to AstrobiologyOU and her plans for future work, in conversation with Ann Grand, a fellow member of AstrobiologyOU...What’s been your journey to astrobiology? If you were to ask my mother, she’d say it was because...
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