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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...history of black settlers in the UK before and during the sixteenth century in this talk and accompanying article...As part of Black History Month 2021, I was invited to present my research on the contributions of Black people before and during the Tudor period. Transcript Encounters with historical events in genres that function as discursive actions within particular...
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What is it like for a doctor to pronounce a patient dead?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is it like for a doctor to pronounce a patient dead?

...family is there, say that you’re sorry for their loss. Then verify that the patient is dead. Shine a penlight into the eyes and note that the pupils are fixed and dilated. Place a stethoscope on the chest and note the lack of breathing and heart sounds. Place a finger on the carotid artery and note the lack of pulse. Look at the clock. Pronounce the patient dead at the...
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Article 5 mins
Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...history. An ethnic group is therefore a group of people who see themselves as being distinctive in some way from others and of having a common heritage or background. What makes an ethnic group different from others will vary from one group to the next. For some it can be skin colour while for others it can be nationality, religion, language or shared cultural traditions....
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Article 10 mins
Writing from the heart
Education & Development

Writing from the heart

...family practices around names and naming, their memories of childhood, old school chums, particular pieces of clothing and their own, their parents’ or grandparents’ homes. Additionally, as part of the extended process of writing in short periods of supported freewriting (or ‘Just Write’ as we’ve called it on this project) the teachers were given space and time...
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Article 10 mins
Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...
History & The Arts

Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...

...history of Spiritualism in the heart of England...[Robbie Williams performing at the Roundhouse, London (Apple Music Festival)]Stoke-on-Trent, famous for its Victorian pottery industry and making the world’s finest bone china, lives in the shadow of its past glories. Today Stoke is a city dominated by its intractable struggle to reverse industrial and economic decline...
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Article 5 mins
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...History and Politics qualification. In 2020, there were petitions to remove Clive of India’s statue from outside the Foreign Office in London. Leading historians view Robert Clive as unworthy of celebration since his reputation falls far short of the values demanded of public office and because his administrative failures led to the catastrophic Bengal famine of...
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Article 20 mins
Ten commandments of research
History & The Arts

Ten commandments of research

...History at the Open University, used to distinguish between witting testimony (the information the writer intended to convey) and unwitting testimony (the prejudices and assumptions underlying the source). Check how contemporary the source was and why it was created. Find out what special skills are needed. The further back in time, the more important it is to realise...
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Article 5 mins
From space to laboratory in four days
Science, Maths & Technology

From space to laboratory in four days

...history, and may have even brought water to Earth when the Solar System was in its infancy. I use the element oxygen to trace what water was up to all those years ago and how it may have interacted with the early rocks. That’s not the only use for oxygen though, as it has another neat little trick up its sleeve! All meteorite “families” have a unique oxygen isotope...
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Article 10 mins