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The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...system of communal saving based on trust. A group would join together to pool their regular savings. The money was kept by a trusted “banker” and the members took it in turn to have access to the lump sum. This enabled many families to put together the down payment on a house. As Elouise’s husband, Beresford described it: I used to throw what is called ‘pardner’...
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Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms
Education & Development

Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms

...Thinking: ZPD for Teaching/Learning Habits of the Heart and Mind, her observations of teachers using classroom discussion showed to bring both opportunities and hindrances to ‘open-forum classroom discussions’. By this, I mean, Miller critiques that in ‘many classroom contexts, literature discussions cut-off students from their own responses… even teachers who...
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Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement

...think at this time of celebration Mo would have wanted it acknowledged that it wasn’t just the female political leaders who had a platform who helped to achieve this peace in a very male dominated environment but it was the unseen, quiet work of the women in the communities that was arguably the key to securing and maintaining peace on the streets of Northern Ireland,...
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Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools
History & The Arts

Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools

...thinking that underpinned collecting practices and displays, which meant going further back in time to consider the history of transatlantic slavery. I joined the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project team at University College London (UCL) as a PhD student and wrote my thesis on George Hibbert, a proslavery West India merchant and art, book and botany collector....
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From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...thinking Bayesian statistics provides a framework for combining prior knowledge with observed data. Named after Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century mathematician, this approach is based on a simple idea: our beliefs about an unknown quantity can be updated as new evidence becomes available. Rather than eliminating uncertainty, Bayesian methods quantify it using...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...think of the ‘T’ as ‘taking action’, so overall, ACT is about being open, aware and active – doing what matters, so that personal and working lives become more meaningful. Let’s explore this further... Open, aware and active So how could ACT help in our working lives? Importantly, ACT is not about reviewing your past to find hidden meaning and answers, nor...
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Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking
Health, Sports & Psychology

Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking

...think of walking and outdoors: both are immensely beneficial for our physical and mental health and wellbeing. Both are also immensely beneficial for people who have a neurodegenerative condition such as a type of dementia. You can read more about the ageing brain here. Walking is a type of exercise suitable and beneficial for everyone, and being outdoors just increases...
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Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...think. If you polled 2,000 people instead of 1,000, for instance, then (other things being equal) the margin of error would go down only from about 3% to about 2%. A mug’s game? Much more of a problem is that even a perfect set of poll results wouldn’t tell you the election result. To this extent it stops being like the soup. If you did eat the whole panful, you...
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