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Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...Resources Many organisations have helpful advice when caring for someone at home. This might be from your local hospice or national charities like Marie Curie. Coping with Breathlessness Talk CPR Wales Death Doulas Talking to Children about dying and death Dr Kathryn Mannix's books With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial Listen: How to Find the...
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Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...resources almost to breaking point. Thereafter its High Command changed tactics – no longer holding ground at all costs, and adopting the ‘Hindenburg Line’ (September 1916), so conceding much territory in order to shorten the front. The effect of this was to push back the positions from which its Spring Offensive was launched in 1918, and this contributed to its...
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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...resources. The internationally renowned Belleek pottery is founded on clay formed from the kaolin, feldspar and flint on the Belleek estate. The Irish Potato Famine provided labour eager to work and waterpower was harnessed. The clay’s ability to be moulded into intricate, light, translucent but strong shapes quickly proved popular. The Pottery is an important stop for...
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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...resources to get out into the countryside. So what we try to do is to work with people like the National Trust, the National Park Authority, local businesses to provide free visits so that the schools can actually come out here and experience countryside life, they can visit a farm, look at the wildlife, look at the landscape and find out about the National Park and...
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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...resources wisely. So researchers reflect carefully on what they already know and try and articulate theories that would be most likely to find unexpected behaviour by juries. A second, somewhat related, reason is that we want to be able to use our research to make generalisations to other scenarios that we have not yet tested. A theory allows us to make inferences that...
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‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus
History & The Arts

‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus

...resources for guidance in using the Hestia texts. Now read the commentary from Livius.org where the author outlines the problem. [Nabonidud] Nabonidus Chronicle, British Museum, London “For Greece, the sequence of events in what we call the 6th century BC is more or less known from Herodotus of Halicarnassus. 'The Histories' contain a general account of the history of...
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Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...by Norena Shopland include A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment, Forbidden Lives: LGBT Stories from Wales and A Practical Guide to Searching LGBTQIA Historical Records (LGBTQ Histories. Discover more on OpenLearn [AC Collection] This resource is part of the Active Citizenship in Wales collection. Discover more on the collection homepage....
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Making a difference: Youth participation
Education & Development

Making a difference: Youth participation

...resources to lots of different schools across the country about how they can help combat the sort of negative stigma around young people who maybe look different because of birth marks, or scarring, or some kind of condition which affects the way that they look. And that was something which we feel will really help those young people because it helps reduce bullying and...
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