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England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...becoming part of our national heritage. Yet the process of naming a battlefield could often take many years. Towton was most frequently referred to as ‘Palm Sunday Field’ in the years immediately after 1461, a reference to when it took place, not its geographical location. It was also known as the ‘York Field’ and ‘the battle at Shirbourne beside York’, before...
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How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...become. Reason 2: Cross-cutting Our digital activities influence and impact our emissions across other categories, including emissions associated with housing and travel. Reason 3: Empowering As mentioned in the remote working article (linked below), some of the actions we can take to reduce our personal digital carbon footprints are small, yet impactful. These...
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Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...becomes very much issue-led. This then hints at two senses of the public: the idea of ‘the public as a social entity or target for an intervention’; and the public as ‘the mode of intervention, which requires some form of collective action’. Taking either or both of these approaches means that public health is always ‘political’: governments commission and...
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Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...becomes the go-to, easiest tool the parent is using.” Although helpful in the short term, it’s important for young children to be able to develop internal mechanisms of self-regulation, whether that’s learning without constant rewards or being able to sit patiently without constant digital stimulation. Christakis says that, anecdotally, he and others are starting to...
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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...become infested with maggots. His first instinct was to clean out the larvae but then, like other doctors before him, he noticed something strange: the wounds with maggots didn’t become infected, they healed faster, and the soldiers were much less likely to die of their injuries. After the war, Baer returned to Johns Hopkins and brought his insights into maggot therapy...
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Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time
Society, Politics & Law

Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time

...become called now the English question. So one of the big ironies of the Scottish Independence Referendum is it’s resulted in a huge debate about this thing England and Englishness. Now, the party who has got most to gain from that in Scotland is of course the Scottish National Party, because the more that England starts to behave as England and looks for devolution in...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...become, if you like, the places where the nuclear industry resides and as a result, to some extent, they hold on tenaciously to that, Sellafield being a case in point. But at the same time, peripheralisation implies that other communities are able to resist, to repel, to bring up combinations of cross-cutting alliances to try and prevent nuclear activity. So that is why...
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Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...becoming a way of delivering a communications strategy, rather than the other way round. He points to firms such as Virgin or BMW where the company brand subsumes separate offerings, or to firms like the Body Shop where company values provide competitive differentiation. As in Figure 1, ‘in this ‘new’ model, communications starts with the company, and marketing...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs