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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...researching the work of suffragette medics at the moment, so it’s a real pleasure to be able to focus my thoughts on a suffrage banner today as I talk about popular protest in history. When I hear the word ‘suffragette’, or come across it in print somewhere, I see visual images. The most powerful include Emmeline Pankhurst caught up in the physically restraining...
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What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?

...research on protection of the right to private and family life of EU citizens in the UK post-Brexit, I note some gaps in the Draft Withdrawal Agreement between the UK and EU, published in March 2018. The new document from the Home Office does add some helpful details, especially on how exactly settlement will work. It resolves the issue of people known as “Surinder...
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Beaghmore Stone Circle
OpenLearn Ireland

Beaghmore Stone Circle

...researched and monitored by the Woodland Trust and the Northern Ireland Native Woodland Group . The Plantation of Ulster resulted in yet another agricultural and therefore landscape change with straight hedges, larger fields and scrubland turned to cropland. There’s likely to be some evidence of historic settlement, similar to that of the area around Beahghmore Stone...
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A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...researchers in the Antarctic found the shipwreck Endurance, which sank in 1915 during Shackleton's expedition. New to OpenLearn: we refreshed the popular ‘Developing career resilience’ course, and added articles such as the very helpful ‘How to keep your kidneys healthy’! [Blue banner says 'the defamation case with no real winner'] Were you Team Depp or Team...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...researchers gauging reactions to the report and to the publicity that surrounded it. These are drawn from Mass Observation and give a first hint of the reception that Beveridge received: What did people think of the Beveridge report? Positive comments were in a clear majority: 'It's the goods! All the yearnings, hopes, dreams and theories of socialists for the past half...
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...research conducted during the strike in 2004 (see Mooney and McCafferty, 2005 and 2007), is my attempt to address this to an extent, and to ensure Scotland’s nursery nurses are given their rightful place in our awareness and understanding of women’s workplace struggles in the twenty-first century and their impact. Background to the strike Despite their ongoing...
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The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...research that colleagues and I carried out into the decision making of traders in investment banks, one trader told us: ’I spend time talking to a lot of people; consultants, other traders on the desk, in the markets, finding out what people are doing. I am always absorbing information. ... I like to find people who have the same thought processes as me’. This trader...
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A brief history of sex education
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of sex education

...research that has been done is largely about school sex education during the 20th century. School sex education is important, yet most of us learn little of what we know about sex from our schooling. We learn it from friends, from family and, increasingly, from the media. In England from the late 19th century, a number of sex education publications were produced, mainly...
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