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Protest Banners: Hillsborough
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Hillsborough

...world who would see games involving Liverpool Football Club. They were both part of a long-running campaign which saw ordinary men and women take on the powerful – the police, the government, and what was at the time a mass circulation newspaper, The Sun. It was a campaign that was ultimately successful. (End of Mini Lecture) Hillsborough plus thirty years In 2012, The...
The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...World should be arranged. Moreover, their range of experience is limited to moving in circles of people who share the same social outlook and who have always had comfortable and mostly debt-free existences. Those at the top of Government are even more likely than the average MP to be drawn from a privileged elite for whom poverty, benefits and discrimination can only be...
Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...world, discourse around digital technology in the academe can often result in polarising categories. On the one hand, we find the glorified hype of the Web 2.0. version of the university: the digital classrooms of the future where education is free and democratised for all. On the other, one-dimensional stereotypes of ‘digital natives’ glued to iPhones and academics...
Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...worlds of literature and science. And one of the great features of his theory is that it links our biological being with the meanings that constitute our experience. Becoming a great scientist was Freud’s initial ambition but - for practical reasons - he eventually turned to what we would now call psychotherapy. He began by studying what others were doing in this field,...
Oedipus: The message in the myth
History & The Arts

Oedipus: The message in the myth

...worlds of the storytellers, explains Chris Wilson drawing on Oedipus, the Iliad and the Odyssey...[Odysseus and Euryclea by Christian Gottlob Heyne] Odysseus and Euryclea by Christian Gottlob Heyne Homer's epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey are our earliest surviving Greek literature, and our earliest sources for the Greek myths. Let's look at just two aspects of what...
Timeline: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Timeline: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022

...World War In September 1939, Britain declared war on Germany. Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret, spent their time in Windsor castle. In 1940, the 14-year-old Elizabeth made her first radio broadcast during the BBC's Children's Hour, addressing other children who had been evacuated from the cities. Later on in the war she joined the Women's Auxiliary Territorial...
International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour
Society, Politics & Law

International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour

...a world of connections - with Europe and with other countries, including the Commonwealth. Only when the power and necessity of these connections and their role in making the UK what it is today is recognised will anti-immigration arguments and sentiments about Europeans and non-Europeans alike be challenged. This article was previously published on the LSE Brexit Blog...
How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...world. For example, although the evidence strongly supports the value of peer support, it has been almost impossible to meet in person during the pandemic and many carers appear understandably nervous about returning to face-to-face support groups even once the lockdown is relaxed. The recommendations are equally applicable to online and socially distanced peer support...