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From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator
Health, Sports & Psychology

From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator

...thinking to myself, this is the job I was born to do. I was successful in gaining this position and was passionate about this role, to the point that I resigned from the local Trust, where I had been working for 20 years. Now, everyone has a phase in their life that pushes them to their limits. Mine happened three years ago, when I had a sudden change in my personal life....
Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...Think of the shops and product ranges which target women and men differently with the expectation that they'll have separate tastes and lifestyles. [Pink tools] Tools targeted at women: Hammers and knives with pink handles And it's well-known that women do more housework and childcare than their male partners, even in combination with paid employment, and in their careers...
Supporting women musicians in the workplace
History & The Arts

Supporting women musicians in the workplace

...thinking about how you can foster inclusive practices, you can help to change this. Every year, thousands of women leave the workplace. Losing these women is bad for them, bad for the industry, and bad for the economy. Many of these women could be supported to stay, if offered appropriate flexibility and reasonable adjustments. By thinking through what you can do to...
The First World War continues: Medina, Arabia, January 1919
History & The Arts

The First World War continues: Medina, Arabia, January 1919

...think of the First World War, you may think of the Western Front or the dates 1914 - 1918, but did you know that this truly global war was still being fought in 1919 in the Middle East? Dr John Slight explains...[Fakhri Pasha (Fahreddin Pasa), Commander of the Ottoman garrison at Medina, 1916-1919] Fakhri Pasha (Fahreddin Pasa), Commander of the Ottoman garrison at...
A difficult conversation to have about racism
Education & Development

A difficult conversation to have about racism

...thinking “Great, I’m going to be the only brown person on this course, everyone will think it’s a joke me studying English”. Or another time, when I went on a training session and the topic changed to an arranged marriage. The group activity started and the people on my table looked straight to me for an answer. It took me everything not to scream “Arranged...
Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...thinking comparatively across Europe and the Atlantic world. 9. Tell us about the sources that you used, and the challenges that came about using them. The book draws on a wide range of sources: newspapers, pamphlets, political treatises, parliamentary debates, private correspondence, and declarations of independence. The challenge was abundance. The late eighteenth...
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...think them "wonderful and almost endless," and so I dare say they are. But they formed only a very perfunctory interest of our day at Liverpool, where we had come to meet, not to take, a steamer. Our run from London, in the heart of June, was very quick and pleasant, through a neat country and many tidy towns. In the meadows the elms seemed to droop like our own rather...
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...think about all the things you spend time doing across a week. Try to include everything you do to help you map out the time that you might have available for study. Inevitably, some of you will be incredibly busy and juggling lots of things, while some of you might realise that you already have time available for study. Now you have mapped out your available time for...