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Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...projection to suit its size. Gill was already famous for his playful pictorial underground map (The Wonderground Map of London Town, 1914), with its whimsical speech bubbles and rhymes designed to entice the viewer to visit new locations. Gill placed Britain at the centre of Highways of Empire, and let loose his artistry and playfulness. He even misplaced polar bears in...
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What does Marine LePen plan for France?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Marine LePen plan for France?

...project to an abrupt halt. This element of Le Pen’s planning has been little discussed among international onlookers, who have tended to focus on immigration, law and order, Europe and the economy. Le Pen may well be disappointed, however, that launching her programme hasn’t given her much of a poll boost. Despite her opus, she continues to hover around the 25-26%...
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Is Tinder changing the way the world dates?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Tinder changing the way the world dates?

...project explores the experiences of dating app users and investigates how the technology has influenced their sexual practices and views on romantic ideals and long-term relationships. Offline desires, online realities Meeting sexual and romantic partners specifically through dating apps has four characteristics: First, users are able to engage in casual, one-off or...
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The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond
Languages

The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond

...project. Data for Ukraine analyses Twitter data in order to detect a variety of developing events in Ukraine: civilian resistance; displacement of population groups; human rights abuses; and humanitarian needs (Machine Learning for Peace, 2022a). For this purpose, over 600 keywords in Ukrainian and Russian are searched, and these are supplemented by other terms and...
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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...your geographical thinking to work by examining how places that are meaningful to you are changing in these turbulent times. Credits Data and its representation in this OpenLearn page derives from the ESRC-funded project entitled Manchester, The Centripetal City led by Adam Leaver, Rich Goulding and Jon Silver (ES/V002597/1). It is used under a Creative Commons license....
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The arts in Participatory Action Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

The arts in Participatory Action Research

...project learned how others coped with domestic violence. They realised they were not alone and recognised honesty as important when disclosing feelings rather than withholding them. They admitted to feeling depressed, angry and fearful for the future, yet were afraid to seek help within their communities as that trust had been broken. The women agreed that transition back...
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Twin Town a sinema Gymreig ar ddiwedd y nawdegau
History & The Arts

Twin Town a sinema Gymreig ar ddiwedd y nawdegau

...Projecting Wales’, Planet 126, Rhagfyr–Ionawr. Perrins, D. (2000) ‘This town ain’t big enough for the both of us’ in Blandford, S. (ed.) Wales on Screen, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr, Seren. Evans, M (2002) 'Looking Forward, Looking Back' in Thomas, E. Selected Work, ’95 – ’98, Aberteifi, Parthian. French, P. (1999) ‘Something for the weekend’, The Observer, 6...
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Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

...a swift and significant military response - this regiment which grew out of the UDR is to be stood down. Republicans will see that their demands have been met - unionists will be furious. Download the archive (PDF, 37MB)[Image link to download of full archive in a PDF file] Acknowledgements With thanks to project photographer Marie Therese Hurson, Stills Photographic....
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