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Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...history. It is an indispensable part of our physical and social lives. However, it is also responsible for a huge 39% of all global greenhouse gas (‘carbon’) emissions. 28% of this is due to the operational carbon from heating, lighting and cooling our existing buildings, while the substantial remainder of the 11% comes from the embodied carbon of constructing new...
Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?
Society, Politics & Law

Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?

...history of the outsourcing of detention In 1971, the British government decided to halt the ‘flow’ of non-white migration from the former colonial states into the UK, alongside the implementation of a series of restrictive measures (which has since included virginity testing, x-ray screening of minors and the increased imprisonment of illegalised, mostly non-white...
Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser

...history of politics in this nation that’s been so abusive to women” as Bill Clinton (who was after all in the room), his opponent replied with a carefully prepared commentary, saying that unlike any prior Republican candidate she had encountered, Trump was not fit to serve. She also made sure to note that besides women, he had also attacked many minorities –...
Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?
History & The Arts

Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?

...histories, or teaching ambitious young men how to get on. For Socrates, though, there was only one question that mattered: how can we live good lives? And by ‘a good life’ he didn’t mean a life packed with power, or money, or fame. He meant an ethically good life: the life of someone who is courageous, temperate, pious and just; above all, someone who is wise....
Where are you really from?
Education & Development

Where are you really from?

...history in relation to slavery, colonialism and immigration, the power dynamics within this conversation, even if unintentional, are significantly heightened. This is Me [Fish, chips, mushy peas and a slice of lemon, wrapped in newspaper] We can therefore see that this question sits within the complex realm of identity. If I tell you that I am English, having been born in...
Scotland's gold trail
Nature & Environment

Scotland's gold trail

...History+of+Tyndrum&client=safari&hl=en-gb&prmd=inmv&sxsrf=ALeKk017FMKAjWLiSuS-v3hD74JBo9Cl9A:1607114465247&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgxsH2l7XtAhX1snEKHTZeCnAQ_AUoBHoECAUQBA&biw=1024&bih=666 ‘Cononish Gold and Silver Mine, Scotland’, Mining Technology, nd:
The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...History Month tried to decolonise the Western cultural stigmatisation that still surrounds African and African-Caribbean religions even today. The Middle Passage The forced and constant movement and encounter of different people, languages, goods, cultures, religions, and objects, in the Atlantic space, assisted the development of new religious identities...We cannot...
Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen

...history to be the first woman to win Olympic gold in boxing before going on to win Commonwealth gold in 2014 and repeating her Olympic success in 2016. Her prowess both in and outside the ring continues to provide inspiration to many, especially those within the LGBT community. Providing equal inspiration to those within disability sport, Hannah Cockroft, born with...