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Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...de Banyoles", or "The Negro of Banyoles") published by Francesc Darder in a booklet for Barcelona Universal Exhibition at 1888.] Picture of "El Negro" ("Negre de Banyoles", or "The Negro of Banyoles") published by Francesc Darder in a booklet for Barcelona Universal Exhibition at 1888 During the ages of European exploration and colonial expansion, the west delighted in...
Hedd Wyn: y modd y cafodd bywyd un o feirdd mwyaf addawol Cymru ei dorri’n fyr gan y rhyfel byd cyntaf
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: y modd y cafodd bywyd un o feirdd mwyaf addawol Cymru ei dorri’n fyr gan y rhyfel byd cyntaf

...de-lis’. Bu’n gweithio ar y gerdd tan y funud olaf. Yn gynnar ym mis Medi y flwyddyn honno, daeth criw mawr o bobl ynghyd i wylio seremoni’r cadeirio ym Mhenbedw. Roedd y prif weinidog ar y pryd, sef David Lloyd George, yn eu plith, ac yntau’n siaradwr Cymraeg. Heb wybod ei fod wedi marw o’i anafiadau sawl wythnos yn gynharach, roedd y beirniaid yn unfryd unfarn...
Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...de-clutter'. Both the BBC and other channels have television series about ‘collectaholics’ and hoarders who meet counsellors persuading them to ‘de-clutter’. There are of course structural and economic contexts making it possible for members of our society to collect and hoard so many objects: First, people at all income levels now can afford many more material...
Sut daeth jazz i Gymru
History & The Arts

Sut daeth jazz i Gymru

...De: Y plac glas a osodwyd y tu allan i adeilad PCYDDS Dinefwr yng nghanol dinas Abertawe i'w choffáu, © PCYDDS. Roedd ei ffrindiau'n newyddiadurwyr, yn gaethweision a ryddhawydd ac yn ymgyrchwyr megis Frederick Douglass ac Ellen a William Craft, a'r gweithredwyr gwleidyddol William Lloyd Garrison a Harriet Beecher Stowe. Roedd y gerddoriaeth y byddai Jessie wedi clywed...
Homage to Celtalonia
Society, Politics & Law

Homage to Celtalonia

...de Depots et Consignations in France linked to European Investment Bank (EIB) and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD); Membership of the European Union and eventually Eurozone, in the event of the latter functioning as an Optimal Currency Area (OCA) as art of EU-wide economic reforms that end the institutionalization of austerity. The list could go on...
Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)
History & The Arts

Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)

...De Stijl movement (1917-1931), a collection of Dutch artists and architects, wanted to liberate the arts from the shackles of tradition. Other movements such as Art Nouveau (1893-1914) and Expressionism (1912-1923) also experimented with bold, new forms and ideas, and in Russia the Constructivists (1920-1932) emphasised honesty of materials and functional simplicity in...
The language used during end of life care matters
Health, Sports & Psychology

The language used during end of life care matters

...de-prescribing – indicating that something is not being done. There’s the implication then that medical intervention is inherently ‘good’ and thus, not providing interventions, is somehow ‘bad’. The emotive reactions to such a framing about intervention and care can be seen in the media reactions surrounding the Liverpool Care Pathway in 2012, where not...
Neurodivergence and birth trauma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodivergence and birth trauma

...A., Chang, Z., Larsson, H., Mataix-Cols, D. and Fernández de la Cruz, L. (2019) ‘Association of caesarean delivery with risk of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders in the offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis’, JAMA Network Open, 2(8), e1910236. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.10236 (Accessed: 14 March 2025)....