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Life After Death
History & The Arts

Life After Death

...Education and Language Studies at The Open University. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a series of public talks titled ‘Ageing Well’. These 6 lectures are presented on a monthly basis and aim to facilitate your learning about agerelated changes and things we need to be mindful of, as we grow older. All the way through the ‘Ageing Well’ series we...
What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...educational activities. You can find these on the What’s On section of the website, or you can contact them directly by sending an email to info@theparkstrust.com or phoning the office. But you don’t need to live in Milton Keynes to get the benefits of these activities. You can care for your memory in very simple ways such as taking a walk and noticing things along...
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...
Supporting parents through pregnancy and birth distress
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting parents through pregnancy and birth distress

...education, workplaces and communities, to respond thoughtfully and collaboratively (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2025). Effective support is rarely delivered by a single service. It relies on joined up working, clear signposting, and shared responsibility. Community-based and peer-led services play a vital role, particularly for parents who may mistrust statutory...
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...