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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...public as a show cave with impressive stalactites and stalagmites and an underground lake. Other caves are only accessible with specialist equipment and experience, though guided access is available. On the surface, streams emerge and abruptly disappear underground into swallow holes. Their valleys, formed when the ground was frozen during the last Ice Age (30,000 to...
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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

...public – you and I - must do to stay informed and compensate for our own forms of bias. Looking at the “Brexit” referendum on leaving the EU, social media had a significant role in shaping the trend towards leave. The idea that all media and communications can shape what people think goes without saying. However, one of the most interesting aspects of social media...
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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...Public Policy, & Law, 7(3), pp. 622–727. Diamond, S.S. and Rose, M.R. (2018) ‘The Contemporary American Jury’, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 14(1), pp. 239–258. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-110316-113618. Hastie, R., Penrod, S. and Pennington, N. (1983) Inside the Jury. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Levett, L.M....
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Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...public galleries of our museums, libraries, and archives where so much diversity is still missing. So, when you research and write your essays, novels, and books, bear this in mind and look for the people in the shadows of history. They are always there. About the author Norena Shopland is a Welsh historian and writer who specialises in researching, recording and...
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Women in the Railway in Scotland During both World Wars
Society, Politics & Law

Women in the Railway in Scotland During both World Wars

...list can be accessed at: https://nrm.knack.com/ww1-railway-workers#railway-workers-public/?_ga=2.146712752.504277722.1628590095-1304255480.1628590095 This article is part of the Women and Scottish Railway History Project on OpenLearn.
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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...public. 3. Don’t we need criminal justice responses that morally condemn and punish those who have broken the law? Blame and moral condemnation are based on the assumption that people should ‘get what they deserve’. However, this idea often begins at the wrong starting point, that is, at the point when someone breaks the law. But – for the sake of argument – if...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...public life and consumption instead of production. Yet this is all relatively recent. A hundred years ago, a twelve-year-old working in a factory would have been perfectly acceptable. Now, it would cause social services' intervention and the prosecution of both parents and factory owner. American colonial families: Industrious girls treated with respect The differences...
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Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two

...public confidence and to conclude this as quickly as possible. We have invited two independent witnesses, from the Protestant and Catholic churches, to testify to this. The Army Council took these decisions following an unprecedented internal discussion and consultation process with IRA units and Volunteers. We appreciate the honest and forthright way in which the...
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