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Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...students. Many city councils in Scotland are examining their equality policies with an aim of improving equality, diversity, inclusion and a recognition of this history. For example, The City of Edinburgh Council has produced a new temporary plaque which contains a new narrative of the political and pro-slavery activities of Henry Dundas MP (1st Lord Melville), who...
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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...student with Downs Syndrome and a teacher] A wealth of research has investigated the ways in which the brain, and other parts of the body, respond to the arts. Many art forms trigger both intellectual and multi-sensory responses, drawing on different areas of the brain. Many also invoke an emotional response, perhaps engaging with memories. Some art forms further include...
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Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?
History & The Arts

Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?

...become the first official narratives, some, like Wayne Dynes, confused a lack of static terminology (there have been many words for “trans*” over the years) for a lack of existence (others did the same with a lack of photographs). - Cara, Autostradle So now we have a new rewriting of history, full of, a some people have called it, white-washing and cisplaining. This...
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Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...become somewhat diffuse and varied. This sort of caring environment can still lead to an infant feeling security in relations with others, but in a contrasting way to the single parent-infant bond situation. A second central premise of attachment theory is that IWMs arise out of the oft-repeated experiences of the specific nature of the early relationships between infants...
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Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist
Society, Politics & Law

Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist

...become used to hearing of industrial action in the sector, not least involving staff working for the UK’s ‘flag-carrier’, British Airways (BA). However, the disputes taking place in summer 2022 are a continuing legacy of management attempts to undermine trade unions and erode pay and conditions over successive decades. They also reflect historic resistance by BA...
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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...become an indentured servant; that is, he or she would agree to be bound to their employer, often a farmer, for up to seven years in return for their passage, clothing and lodgings. After their period of indenture had ended, the servant was entitled to so-called ‘freedom dues’ from their former masters such as capital or land. However, if the servant ran away and was...
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Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...become to the world we live in that it was both instrumental in the planning of, and the aftermath of, the Paris Attacks. First, Robyn Torok explains how ISIS used social media to plan the attacks; then Arnaud Mercier tells how the channels came to the fore after the horror unfolded. [The photographer says this is a "call to solidarity in prayer and to stand tall...
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Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...become smart or not. For example, the kind of policies that its local authority has, really crucial are the kinds of support and enablement that's offered or not. And also local innovation cultures. For example, some places have very lively tech innovation cultures, and that kind of enables engagement with digital data in the city in ways that perhaps other places without...
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