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Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War
History & The Arts

Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War

...public comments from the time. 11. What advice would you give to those who want to study history, whether as part of a degree at university, or beyond a university context? History is such a wonderfully broad discipline: it includes anything that has ever happened, anywhere in the world. There’s always so much to explore and even for familiar topics, there will be new...
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After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
History & The Arts

After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution

...public after her husband’s death in 1922. Egyptian nationalist women played a vital role in organising strikes and boycotts of British goods. The Revolution was a key moment in the history of Egyptian and Islamic feminism. In the Egyptian countryside, the Revolution was very violent. Peasant resentment against the British, especially in relation to the hardships of the...
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Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...public space may also find their words taken up, amplified and included in whatever academics are writing. As has been pointed out in the section about asking research questions, the literature you engage with shapes what is accepted as the evidence base for your research project. It has the capacity to determine priorities in your field of interest. In the video below,...
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Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...public firms (here) or exploited the rich datasets of Denmark (here). In our best attempt at mimicking such administrative datasets in countries where they do not exist, we developed a new survey to collect data on the history of succession of ownership and control, as well family characteristics of family CEOs. We used the WMS sample of firms and interviewed over 2700...
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Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...health) has a cumulative deleterious effect on educational outcomes, though the interplay of different ‘disadvantage’ indicators is very complex and nuanced and different combinations of inhibitors have different effects (see DfE 2019). In line with this way of thinking, the study of inclusion should be concerned with understanding and confronting the broader issue of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...public created a demand for politicians to perform - and does that mean we can't trust them? Mike Saward and guests consider this in Performing Politics: perspectives - Audio Text BARACK OBAMA If there is anyone out there… MICHAEL SAWARD Barack Obama . BARACK OBAMA …who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible… MICHAEL SAWARD Many writers...
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Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...public of potential and actual consumers they may well be stressing altruistic motives and not mentioning the business case. So why is it they have to shift here? Nigel: Well that sounds quite Machiavellian to me. The idea that you manipulate appearances to get a certain end result, which is that you’re approved of from outside; is that really an ethical position? Alex:...
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My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'
Languages

My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'

...Health and Safety regulations in science laboratories, which did not permit eating and drinking, and I was satisfied with his attitude. But it wasn’t long before Joshua brought another cup of tea into the laboratory again. This time he did not try to hide it from me. He is quite a tall young man and as he strode towards his seat holding his favourite cup of English tea,...
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