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What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
History & The Arts

What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?

...become common in cakes until some decades later. [The Conversation]I was curious as to how well Mrs Beeton’s version would rise. The batter puffed up enthusiastically, but unevenly, and an extra five minutes in the oven was not enough to prevent the cake from being what my Austrian grandmother would have called “mürbig”, or underbaked. No plaudits from the Bake Off...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...painting The Nightmare, with its impish demon squatting on the chest of a sleeping woman, comes to life; as does Percy Bysshe Shelley’s vision of a woman with eyes in place of her nipples. Thus it is that the sexual licence which drove Shelley’s philosophy becomes, in the story world of the film, a source not for legal or moral upheaval, but emotional anarchy....
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Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation
Society, Politics & Law

Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation

...become apparent that for individuals to provide a TI approach to their service users, organisations also need to portray and deliver this ethos with their employees. In policing this is aligned with what we already know about fairness and procedurally just interactions with the public and the relationship this has with internal organisational justice and fairness within....
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The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health
Languages

The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health

...become even more stressful. The majority of translators work as freelancers and they have been adversely affected by the economic consequences of the pandemic. Many have lost key clients and valuable income. For these knowledge professionals, it won’t be easy to get lost income back once the pandemic is behind us. Adding to this occupational stress, perhaps the greatest...
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Why New York-style rent controls would not work in London
Society, Politics & Law

Why New York-style rent controls would not work in London

...become a major plank in people’s long-term investment and retirement plans. Many have borrowed to buy homes because the mortgage repayment is less than the rent on an equivalent property. Some have bought buy-to-let homes as a way to generate income. Imposing rent controls would upset their calculations, and cause particular problems for those who took high...
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Everybody's looking for love
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everybody's looking for love

...become an old lady. I want somebody to settle down and spend the rest of my life with. When Barbara was asked why she had joined up, she said: … I want to join because I was looking for relationships … To meet people, not necessarily a boyfriend straight away but friends to begin with. The social networks that many people take for granted are often restricted for...
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Sylvia Plath and the linguistics of depression
Languages

Sylvia Plath and the linguistics of depression

...becomes more fragmented, almost like stream-of-consciousness: First think: here is your room — here is your life, your mind: don't panic. Begin writing, even if it is only rough & ununified. First, pick your market: Journal or Discovery? Seventeen or Mlle? Then pick a topic. Then think. If you can't think outside yourself, you can't write. (Entry July 6, 1953) It almost...
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The colour of stars
Science, Maths & Technology

The colour of stars

...half that which the Sun originally possessed, but a size comparable to the Earth, the white dwarf will initially have a surface temperature of around 100,000 degrees. Over the next billion years or so, it will fade in brightness and gradually cool down, moving through the colours until it eventually becomes cold and dead – a black dwarf. Like this? Try a free course...
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