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Election days: 1908 - Churchill challenged by the women
History & The Arts

Election days: 1908 - Churchill challenged by the women

...law without delay. Unless this official Government pledge is made to us we shall continue our opposition to the candidature of Mr. Churchill and other Government candidates." The opposition of suffrage supporters to Churchill's relection played a major part in the upset of Churchill losing the election to the Conservative William Joynson-Hicks on 24th April, 1908;...
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Just six numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Just six numbers

...laws and the numbers governing it have tremendous ramifications from which our Big Bang has evolved into the complex cosmos we inhabit, where on at least one planet creatures have evolved which are complicated enough to worry about it all. Martin Rees was explaining his theory to the Open University programme Final Frontier. To find out more about Martin Rees' six key...
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Do we really want speed on our roads to be further reduced?
Society, Politics & Law

Do we really want speed on our roads to be further reduced?

...of older models? Would motorists baulk at such a 'nanny state' initiative, claiming an assault on their freedom and human rights? Or is it really OK to drive above the speed limit as long as no-one catches you? It's an almost Zen-like question. If a motorist drives too fast through a forest road and there is no-one there to see them, are they still breaking the law?...
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Automated, satellite-based volcano monitoring
Nature & Environment

Automated, satellite-based volcano monitoring

...laws into the techniques of automated eruption detection and quantitative monitoring. Development of a general method The suite of lava flow samples from Mount Etna, Italy (1999 - 2017) were investigated (spectral emissivity measured), using laboratory-based Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) spectroscopy at 0.4 to 14.5 μm wavelength range and moderate-to-high...
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Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love
Society, Politics & Law

Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love

...law, it’s against the fucking law!” Sutton screams. But we aren’t listening anymore: we’re watching Alison and Saul watch her, and the camera asks us to identify with Alison when she delivers her caustic rebuke: “That woman, she’d let the country burn as long as she got the Pulitzer Prize.” Saul’s exasperated frown says it all – he looks like he just...
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UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind
Money & Business

UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind

...law. The decline in power of trade unions has also been a factor. Historically they were able to ensure work and employment standards remained within a legal framework, however, given adverse policies and the structural changes in the sector, unions have lost a lot of ground. As far as individual workers are concerned, it is easy to see how those who know they can’t get...
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Brexit: an economic strategy from the left?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: an economic strategy from the left?

...laws concerning VAT presented an obstacle to zero-rating women's sanitary products. Could Brexit simplify such changes in future? MSC: This is a typical example of blaming the EU, when it is muddled policymaking back home that is really to blame. When Britain first joined the European Economic Community in 1973, under a Conservative government, it agreed to VAT on...
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The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies
OpenLearn Ireland

The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies

...laws to restrict the entry of ‘papists’ into their territories (Kenny, 2000, p. 9). The state of Maryland, one of the original Thirteen Colonies of England, had initially provided a haven for Catholics in the seventeenth century. However, this toleration did not last, and it too introduced a series of penal laws which restricted the rights of Catholics between 1690...
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