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Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...Scotland/SCRAN) © By courtesy of the Trustees of the National Museums of Scotland/SCRAN. Figure 5 Nurses on a ward, Leith Hospital, Edinburgh, 1917. This image encapsulates the order and cleanliness of the hospital ward, with its rows of beds and polished floor. This picture is unusual in that it does not show the medical staff, only the nurses, some of whom are tending...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...SCOTLAND Edinburgh Score Scotland Score Scotland serves communities in the West of Edinburgh, providing communities with advice and information, advocacy and representation for people experiencing racial discrimination, abuse or harassment. www.scorescotland.org.uk Saheliya Saheliya is a specialist mental health and wellbeing support organisation for Black, Minority...
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Should the Tories be worried about their low membership numbers?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the Tories be worried about their low membership numbers?

...Scotland) people have been flocking to join obscure organisations known as “political parties”. The mood is intoxicating everyone, regardless of age or social background. They are joining Labour, the SNP, UKIP, the Greens and even the Liberal Democrats. [George Osborne] Supported in the polls, but not attracting followers There is, though, an exception to the trend....
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Mental Health: Lennox Castle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental Health: Lennox Castle

...Scotland housed over 1600 patients in purpose built multi-occupancy villas, and most staff lived on site or in nearby Lennoxtown. Oral historian Howard Mitchell started his working life there, as a member of the hospital's nursing staff. In the tracks on this album, he looks back at the history of the hospital, and talks to former patients and staff about their...
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Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983

...and Scotland and in the States, developing existing industries such as the tweed and the spinning here, promoting industries from outside the area that came in to give employment and that gives skills. It’s along those lines starting from a very weak base, trying to get marketable products, that is the exercise basically. Explore the articles in this collection ....
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Soil could save Earth from overheating
Nature & Environment

Soil could save Earth from overheating

...Scotland report in Nature journal that with a few changes to agricultural practice, there would be room for another 8 billion tonnes. “In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change in the 21st century, we need heavyweight allies,” says Dave Reay, a geoscientist and specialist in carbon management at Edinburgh University. “One of the most powerful is right beneath...
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Article 10 mins
Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...Scotland. ‘I’m a 51-year-old mother of two grown-up sons and the relocation, several years ago now, enabled me – finally – to do the degree I’ve wanted to do since I was young, but couldn’t afford to,’ she explained... and as Charity embarked on her English Language and Literature BA with the Open University, she also discovered OpenLearn! ‘I hadn’t...
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The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries
Society, Politics & Law

The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries

...Scotland has an industrial heritage that belies its image today as primarily a market town, regional centre and hub for the rural communities of Dumfries and Galloway. In particular, the town has a rich past as a location for the manufacturing of tweed cloth and hosiery. Alongside this lies another important legacy – a place of industrial disputes and trade union...
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