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The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...The gradual shift in occupational structure is of real significance, as we try to piece together how our modern world came to be. Seen within the full span of human history – with hundreds of thousands of years as hunter-gatherers, and about ten thousand years of settled agriculture – this shift too might be seen as a “revolution”, even if it took a few centuries!...
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What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?

...humanity has ever known. Granted, what he will and will not be able to get away with – such as in trade protectionism – will be shaped by the checks and balances of the US system of government. But it’s easy to foresee many press conferences and meetings with a President Trump where the British prime minister and officials are left disgusted, aghast and struggling...
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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...humanities. Many of the owners of such houses also maintained estates in England and in other parts of the British Empire. The management of an Irish estate was frequently left in the hands of middlemen, often Catholic, who focused their attention on maximising rents from tenant farmers rather than on agricultural improvements. These farmers in turn rented small potato...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...human cultures throughout the world and throughout history have used some form of herbal medicine. Certainly plants which are still used as medicines have been found in ancient burial sites around the world – the oldest may be the grave of a Neanderthal man from (what is now) Northern Iraq estimated to be 60,000 years old. Currently, worldwide, most medicines are still...
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Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion
Society, Politics & Law

Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion

...humans and nature? Some fascinating answers linking geography with anarchism come from the writings of a Russian anarchist prince called Peter Kropotkin. In the following podcast you can listen to the Philip being interviewed by Andy Morris, which introduces you to Kropotkin's life and ideas. Philip is interviewed by Andy Morris from The Open University’s Geography...
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Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...human excrement, fostering deadly diseases. Life expectancy for the poorest of Victorian Shoreditch was just 16. The clip is reproduced with permission from the BBC. CopyrightBBC 'Semi-vicious and criminal classes' [Old Nichol slums] The streets of the Friars Mount slum in the Old Nichol, which would eventually be cleared to build Arnold Circus, were coloured black by...
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Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...humanity. Oxfam calculate that the 62 richest people in the world have since 2010 seen their wealth increase by 44%, equivalent to more than half a trillion dollars. Yes you read that right, half a trillion. By contrast the bottom half of the global population, a mere 3.5 billion people, saw their share of global wealth drop by an astonishing $1 trillion dollars, which is...
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Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View
Society, Politics & Law

Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View

...human beings with the rights of women and men.” Clarification: In the original version of this text, the text implied that Emmeline had been unsuccesful in her attempts to win the Whitechapel seat in 1929. As commenter Elaine Ellen pointed out, as she had died in the year before the poll took place, it's not correct to say that she stood for parliament at all. We've...
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