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Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...World War II, as well as ‘Commissars’ in the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, and as a Soviet agent in the regular army. Other papers on the artist Felicia Browne (the first British volunteer to be killed in Spain), on popular front literature, and on Communist Party intellectuals in the Cold War period, considered the constraints imposed on...
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Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago
Nature & Environment

Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago

...world is only now slowly waking up to the scale of the problem. Air pollution caused by fumes from the hundreds of thousands of vehicles on our roads is one of the big killers of the modern age, especially in cities, and is, along with climate change, a serious threat to the future of the planet. It is not just fast-growing cities like Beijing or Delhi that are reeling...
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Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class
Languages

Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class

...world's longest running soap opera tell you who they are whenever they talk. Pour yourself a glass of Tumble Tussock and Rob Drummond will explain...[The Old Bull in Inkberrow] The Old Bull in Inkberrow, the model for The Bull in Ambridge When it comes to who’s who in the Archers, Brian and Jennifer Aldridge are landed gentry, the Grundys are struggling farm-workers and...
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Airbus and Brexit: What do you need to know?
Money & Business

Airbus and Brexit: What do you need to know?

...World Trade Organisation is focused on the alleged use of illegal EU state aid to support these well-paid jobs in the development of new airframes. With the UK out of the EU, there would be no such aid, leaving it worse off competitively. 4. Logistical sense From an efficiency point of view, having wings made in a different country to the rest of the airframe is a poor...
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Other Moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Other Moons

...world-sized bodies with landscapes to rival the best that their inner neighbours can show. We will probably wait at least another 50 years before humans visit any except Mars’ moons, but robotic spacecraft have studied some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn well enough to establish that they are high-priority targets for future robotic missions. The moons of Uranus and...
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LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference

...world where no child is rejected or thought of as lesser because they are LGBTQ, which can include challenging homo-, bi- and trans-phobia when we are confronted by this in our day-to-day lives. A ‘harmless expression’ to denote something as feeble or useless, such as ‘that’s so gay’ – well what message does that send to young people and society at large?...
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Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic

...world’s digital ‘public goods’ to help achieve the SDGs. These could be around COVID-19 resilience, functional literacy, job-related skills or any other number of important ‘capacities’ for helping people improve their lives. At The Open University we are part of this growing movement. We have partnered with some of the leading international development...
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How Spanish sounded across its history
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How Spanish sounded across its history

...Transcript Las siete cabritas French-born Mexican author Elena Poniatowska (1932) writes about social and political issues and has received numerous prizes and awards across the world for her works. This fragment belongs to Las siete cabritas (The seven kids), devoted to the lives of seven Mexican women, of which only Frida Kalho is well known globally. Transcript...
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