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Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...become aware of the scale of its losses; casualty lists from the battle were still being published in Ulster’s newspapers in early August, and ‘a hush of mourning fell over the whole province… In house after house, blinds were drawn.’ The annual 12th July demonstrations were cancelled. Instead, five minutes silence was observed at noon, when traffic halted and...
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Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media

...becomes your brand.” The effect described in this quote is a tried-and-tested influencing method psychologists call the mere-exposure effect. Simply by exposing people to things, causes them subconsciously to develop a preference for it. There is no reason that this would not work for messages such as: “We want our country back” “No border, No control” “Who...
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Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...become less shy, it does suggest that it is possible to change a child’s basic emotional outlook. Interestingly, children themselves are quite optimistic about changing the negative: while 5 to 6 year-olds feel it is quite hard to change negative physical traits, they feel it is quite easy to change negative psychological traits (e.g., being very shy/fearful). This...
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What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...become a sort of national icon in a strange way. This made me question the whole issue of what is true in my research in a different way, I just wondered if that had been the same for you. EMMA DARWIN: Oh I think absolutely, I mean an awful lot of what people call the facts are actually… well for one thing they’re the record. SALLY O’REILLY: Yes. EMMA DARWIN:...
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...become obscured, and the potential for richly reciprocal reader relationships between children and children and between children and teachers reduces. A balance needs to be wrought between teaching the skills of decoding and comprehension and fostering reading for pleasure.Yet it is possible to build human connections between readers and texts and to make the life-to-text...
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The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982

...becoming one of the largest bra manufacturers in the United States. In the 1960s, the firm looked to establish a manufacturing base in the UK. The firm was impressed by the modern design of the new town and were tempted by the government assistance available to relocating firms to areas of economic decline such as in the West of Scotland. Production began at Lovable’s...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...become a great leader. So perhaps the poem is suggesting that although the Irish language is something fragile and vulnerable now, it will have enough strength in the future to survive oppression and bear hope. But if we recall the context of the original Bible story the message is perhaps less optimistic. Moses is only put in the basket to save him from the Egyptian...
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Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...become a densely populated warren. A single house here contained 60 people, there was barely any sanitation and the streets were filled with human excrement, fostering deadly diseases. Life expectancy for the poorest of Victorian Shoreditch was just 16. The clip is reproduced with permission from the BBC. CopyrightBBC 'Semi-vicious and criminal classes' [Old Nichol slums]...
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