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What is happening in Brazil?
Society, Politics & Law

What is happening in Brazil?

...Research Institute at two recent protests in São Paulo (one pro-government and the other against), anti-government demonstrators were 13 percent more likely to earn above US$27,600 annually. Anti-government demonstrators were also less likely to be civil servants, and more likely to own their own businesses. But at both rallies, nearly 80 percent of demonstrators were...
Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...research. The Democratic Set Originally devised and designed by Artistic Director Bruce Gladwin, The Democratic Set is one of those residency models. It is an approach to creating short films and performances that, when edited together, capture a unique picture of a community at a particular moment in time. Using a custom-made film set – a neutral room with two opposing...
How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...Research undertaken during 2020 showed us that over half the audience at the time was using the platform because of events relating to the pandemic – a combination of furlough, redundancy, supporting others’ education, needing to improve online teaching skills or simply having more time to learn. Importantly, across the platform, 38% of learners declared they were...
The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...research and popular education remain a vexed problem for museum administrators everywhere. 'History is other people's junk', a sign in the CheckPoint Charlie Museum in Berlin reads. Fortunately the Victorian obsessions with 'junk' associated with archaeology, anthropology and Empire and natural history resulted in 'cathedrals to science'. Of course the order has moved...
Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...research on how healing it is to spend time outdoors using green and blue spaces. One of the key ways of maintaining our wellbeing is having the opportunity to leave the house and just spend time outdoors. The exercise could be strenuous but it doesn’t need to be in order to gain the desirable protective effect on our health and wellbeing. More about how spending time...
England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...Research on these sites is ongoing, evident in the fact that the board states the battle took place on 26 July, although historians now generally agree it took place two days earlier! (Graham Evans) Historic battlefields matter today as part of our public history and sometimes they can arouse quite heated debates. In 2021 Royal Mail issued a set of stamps commemorating...
Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...research now is to investigate under what circumstances such differences obtain – a continuing and fascinating challenge. It is sad, though perhaps not surprising, that creationists (including the re-branded 'Intelligent Design' lobby), resolutely ignore such carefully conducted studies, preferring instead to keep re-cycling an already falsified picture of the fossil...
Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...researcher Sara de Jong on the intersections of identity and citizenship with economic history and language...[Plant by Laura Malacart] Sara: What were the sources of inspiration for developing your current installation for the Who Are We? Project? What discoveries did you make in the process that have found a place in your artistic intervention? Laura: I addressed the...