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Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
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Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...managed to survive the atrocities but the horror did not end there for him. When he later recognised one of his torturers, this psychiatrist had become famous in his profession and a forensic expert in high demand. The doctor took preventive measures and due to his spiteful “expert” testimony, Zawrel was sent to prison. He spent long years in prison and psychiatric...
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Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?
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Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?

...managed a very successful immigration and settlement program since the 1940s, the current conservative government and their supporters in the media, and especially the Minister for Immigration, Peter Dutton, have linked the risk of terrorism with new immigrant and refugee communities. A recent government policy change outlined in a document called ‘Strengthening the...
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Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people
Society, Politics & Law

Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people

...manage? According to the American Psychological Association (2014) resilience is “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of stress”. However, several scholars including Southwick et al. (2016) argue that resilience is much more complex and that its determinants could include a range of biological,...
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Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front

...manager for his little "picture palace" in a cellar, not three miles from the German wire, where tired soldiers can drop in for an hour's relaxation, and forget the unpleasant enemy who is almost within shot. One cinema has been showing the Somme battle film, and the men who flock to see it display extraordinary interest in the incidents of the "great push". Some infantry...
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Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people
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Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people

...manage a suicidal impulse when things are looking bleak and hopeless. Where do we go from here? I would therefore like to make the following three brief conclusions: Immediately abolish life imprisonment for children and look to house children who do serious wrongs in places of genuine care and safety; Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility immediately to 14 so...
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Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?
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Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?

...management and council leaders for equal pay. Councillor David McDonald, Deputy Leader, Glasgow City Council Mags McCarthy, Open University Tutor, UNISON Divisional Convenor and former Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate Jennifer McCarey, Chair of Glasgow Trades Council Lyn-Marie O’Hara, Glasgow City Council UNISON Shop Steward Not surprisingly Red Clydeside remains an...
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The Women and Scottish Railway History Collection
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The Women and Scottish Railway History Collection

...Manager, OU in Scotland. “Far reaching social, economic, cultural and political changes over the last 120 years contribute to the discrimination that women have faced, and this continues right up to the present day when austerity polices and the Covid pandemic have impacted more on women. “The Women and Workplace Struggles collection provides vital social context as...
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War enthusiasm
History & The Arts

War enthusiasm

...manage popular discontent. Strikes on the home-front, and desertion and even mutinies on the front threatened the governments’ war efforts as populations tired of warfare. An example is the French mutinies of April-July 1917 (kept secret at the time), when large numbers of infantry soldiers refused to fight. Some twenty-thousand soldiers were court-martialled as a...
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