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The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries
Society, Politics & Law

The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries

...change, their rate was cut from sixpence to fivepence-halfpenny per dozen pairs of gloves (after some less-skilled work was given to workers on a fixed wage). Both handers and fingerers were paid by the piece. Communications and Concerts The local newspapers were essential for information about the dispute, and both strikers and the firm tried to ensure their views were...
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United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...change, to challenge injustices and to oppose all forms of discrimination – as well as supporting others in doing so. This involves listening to and respecting people who face daily struggles as well as structural discrimination, while working to challenge those attitudes, systems and practices. Two decades and more of community struggle has led to the re-opening of a...
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What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...change substantially over the course of the eighteenth century but much more information about him and his teachings began to accumulate. The Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert was certainly the most famous of the compendia of knowledge of the Enlightenment, but it was not the only one. Inspired by it, in 1764 Voltaire published his own, which he called...
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Women and the fight to reclaim higher education
Society, Politics & Law

Women and the fight to reclaim higher education

...change it will not be closed for another 22 years. (More information on the dispute is available on the UCU website. With figures such as these, one could be forgiven for thinking that the HE sector in the UK was in a poor place financially. Yet in 2021, UK universities generated a record income of £41.1bn. UCU estimates that university vice chancellors collectively...
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Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...change than the one-gene-at-a-time tweaking of GMOs. 4. Nici was the spawn of 9 generations of full-sib matings. The brother-sister matings left just enough heterozygosity to provide interesting gene variants, but not enough diversity to gum up the sequencers and assemblers. Having the turkey genome sequence will enable breeders to select traits based on genotype rather...
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Should I lock in my exchange rate when using cards and ATMs abroad?
Money & Business

Should I lock in my exchange rate when using cards and ATMs abroad?

...change to the Indian currency, the Karnataka Bank ATM stayed closed. Image: Agastya Chandrakant under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license A record number of tourists and business travelers visited another country in 2016, and this year is already on pace to exceed that tally. One thing you definitely need when traveling abroad besides a passport is local currency, such as...
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Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...changed when multiple positionalities are equitably included throughout the process. You can demonstrate your trust and belief in people in different ways too. For instance, you can support people to experience being a Principal Investigator or make sure that Work Package leads are shared among people with a variety of backgrounds. Ilyés (2019) explores how approaches...
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The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster
Nature & Environment

The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster

...changes were more frequent in phase 2. Phase 3 (47 live birds, 11 deaths, 1.4% per day) lasted from the 4th day until 3 weeks and was characterised by a transition from the acute conditions of phases 1 and 2 to the chronic conditions of phase 4. Phase 4 (36 live birds, 25 deaths, 0.4% per day) started at 3 weeks and was terminated at 28 weeks, when most of the survivors...
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