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How do historians know about the past?
History & The Arts

How do historians know about the past?

...changed over the years. We can also find entries in reference dictionaries and encyclopaedias describing amongst other things famous Met cases involving criminals like Dr Crippen and the Kray twins. The Metropolitan Police have even written up their history from their point of view on their own website. All these along with hundreds of other books and articles written by...
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Free online courses for refugees
Society, Politics & Law

Free online courses for refugees

...change so please note this is not a comprehensive list. Free English Language courses A range of free courses to help you develop basic English skills to progress to English in the workplace. Choose the free course that best suits your interests and needs. Free Everyday English courses Free English skills courses More English courses Other skills and subjects A selection...
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Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods
History & The Arts

Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods

...change in order for flesh to be produced.” No blood, no chance of a baby. Today, we know that the placenta keeps an unborn baby’s blood supply separate and provides oxygen and nutrients to the baby via the umbilical cord. 3. Losing a pint of blood was ‘normal’ How much blood were women expected to lose? Today a “normal” period is expected to be around 80ml, or...
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Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...changing environment, requiring constant reattunement and empathic work. Our prototype serves as an example of research that draws on design and geography to enquire into environmental futures. Such ‘thinking through making’ can be demanding, because the method of finding out about a thing, the thing itself and the concepts employed to interpret the thing emerge at...
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Fake news in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Fake news in Wales

...changing face of ‘fake news’ and the post-truth world "TRUTH Social… encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology". This is the mission statement for the new social media platform announced by Donald Trump in October 2021. Its name has raised a few eyebrows given the track record that its founder has when...
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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...change will this produce?', 'Will I be paid?') but these are seldom acknowledged in the standard Methods section of a paper or article. Instead, accounts of participant recruitment and obtaining informed consent are recited as if these are smooth, even mechanical procedures, within the researcher's control. Similarly, discussions of interview data tend to imply that talk...
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Can we design places to combat loneliness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we design places to combat loneliness?

...changes to housing? The study also found that access to good quality public and active (walking, cycling) transport on the other hand, seems to have a protective effect. So too does living somewhere with access to community centres and natural spaces. These are all aspects of people’s neighbourhoods which seem to help them to have casual interactions – bump into...
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Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...change what you are doing. You will have a lot to learn too. Be happy if something unexpected happens. Don’t be constrained by a traditional curriculum. Use a variety of resources, media and activities that engage all the senses. Further reading Rix, J., Hall, K., Nind, M., Sheehy, K. and Wearmouth, J. (2009) ‘What pedagogical approaches can effectively include...
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