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Titty or Tatty: What's in a name?
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Titty or Tatty: What's in a name?

...families of children in the Lake District in 1929. One of the four Walker children featured in the novel, Titty Walker, is based on the real life Mavis Altounyan. As the Telegraph recently reported, Barbara Altounyan, Mavis’s niece, is furious that the name is being changed for, she argues, reasons of political correctness. Saying her aunt would be “turning in her...
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How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?
Education & Development

How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?

...families to embark on higher education, and 22% reported disabilities or long-term health impairments. Many respondents managing mental health problems, medication, hospital visits and declining mobility viewed part-time study as a lifeline. Only 15% reported getting support from their employers for their studies. Almost all admitted they would prefer to be studying...
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Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?
Society, Politics & Law

Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?

...family and friends. As well as this expansion of cast, the community can also contribute additional elements or fragments of the story. This fragmented approach to co-creation means that the stories on Facebook sites do not unfold in a linear fashion. Because some people are adding backstory, others are “thickening” the script about more central events, and yet others...
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What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?

...family are Earth-like in their density and not just their size. There is no way to be sure yet how much water most of them have, if any. Similarly, it’s hard to know whether any resemblance to Earth extends as far as having plate tectonics and a distinction between oceanic and continental crust (like Earth) or a more globally homogeneous crust (like Mars and Venus). The...
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Telephone bereavement support: does it work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Telephone bereavement support: does it work?

...families, community and faith-based networks1. We may also find it useful to access some information about how we can take care of ourselves as our grief emerges, and how we can learn to express our feelings for the person no longer with us in body. The remaining 40% may need some additional help in their grief. This can involve peer support groups, individual...
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Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war

...family lived and worked at a remote farm outside Trawsfynydd in north-west Wales, called Yr Ysgwrn. Evan Evans bought his son a book on the rules of strict-metre Welsh verse when Hedd Wyn was 11 years old. He read the book with passion and enthusiasm, and soon mastered the difficult and intricate rules of strict-metre verse, known as cynghanedd. He wrote his first ever...
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Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...family farm in Sussex. [Tractor in a field by a lake] Contemporary haymaking working on a much larger scale. Meadow species are uniquely adapted to the annual cycle of summer hay cutting and aftermath grazing that has been shaping them for centuries. Since World War II, some 97% of our precious wildflower meadows have been lost, due to agricultural intensification, land...
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Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?
History & The Arts

Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?

...family or comrades of the deceased to pay for their safe passage. Without it, the soul could be trapped on the banks of the river forever on the other side, the soul passed by the three-headed guard dog Cerberus to enter the gates to the Underworld proper. Cerberus was friendly to the arriving souls – wagging his tail and encouraging them to pet him – but would attack...
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