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Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View
Society, Politics & Law

Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View

...class and gender, and between feminism and socialism. It was this question above all others which led to a major and irreversible split within one of the most important of the women's suffrage organisations, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU, commonly know as the Suffragettes, founded in 1903). This split mirrored the ideological rift with her mother, Emmeline,...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands

...de notabelen het wittebrood en gewoon brood voor het gewone volk. Echter, na WO2 ontstond er een herdefiniëring van wat gezond en luxe is en nu worden de roggebrood en ander grof tarwemeel brood gezien als luxe, en gezonder. Dutch Onze ouders waren niet arm, maar wij hadden het niet breed. Via, via mochten wij, drie oudsten, mee op kamp: ‘De Grote Beer’ op...
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Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?

...class and race. It also plays into a narrative where histories of the private sphere are viewed as of lesser historical importance than those of politics and public protest. There is no space in this programme for the sort of stories which, for example, underpin Catherine Hall and Leonore Davidoff’s Family Fortunes. This seminal 1989 study of “the world as provincial...
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Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony
History & The Arts

Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony

...class to preserve Welsh language folk music?...Find out more about The Open University’s music courses_.  _ At the 1837 Abergavenny Eisteddfod, a prize was offered for ‘For the best collection of original unpublished Welsh airs, with the words as sung by the peasantry of Wales’. It was won by Maria Jane Williams, with a collection that was published in 1844 as...
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A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
Health, Sports & Psychology

A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities

...class and gender/sexism are matters of life and death’, and this is particularly true in relation to maternal mortality and Black women. If we are to fully understand the factors which influence the health of Black communities and develop policies and practices that address racial inequities in health we must develop and utilise intersectional conceptual frameworks for...
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our optional end-of-course survey. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others....Week 1: What is learning?: Introduction - Much of the learning we do as adults happens because we want, or have, to learn something. At other times, we learn without realising it, and we may...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Le Corbusier
History & The Arts

Le Corbusier

...de l'Esprit Nouveau of 1925), and the Maison Citrohan (a play on words suggesting the building industry should adopt the methods of the mass production automobile industry), which he hoped would solve the chronic housing problems of industrialised countries. His radical ideas were given full expression in his 1923 book Vers Une Architecture ("Towards a New Architecture"),...
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How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility
Society, Politics & Law

How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility

...de-skilling by building new cultural capital, such as professional credentials in the destination society. Second, migrants' strategies and positionings operate across different fields. For example, among our interview participants, we have found that within the field of family, caring for children may be an obstacle to migrant women accessing the labour market and...
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