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The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...become emblematic of modernity and rational knowledge, their majestic architecture, part cathedral, part stately home, and their neat displays of objects organised along taxonomic and/or evolutionary principles. When did the idea arise that museums and their exhibitions could be viewed as technologies themselves for self-improvement and a means for promoting an orderly...
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Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade
History & The Arts

Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade

...become Africa’s main export. But this may have been to the cost to African economies. It seems that the period between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries was a time of economic stagnation for Africa, which fell further and further behind the economic progress of Europe as the years passed by. Little wonder, then, that some historians interpret this as a sign that...
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Getting started with a Password Manager
Digital & Computing

Getting started with a Password Manager

...become a victim of a hack on one site in which our username and password are stolen, it is all too easy for criminals to try and use those details to break into another – possibly a crucial site such as an online bank or your work computers. Fortunately, there is a solution – a password manager; a program that creates and securely stores passwords on your computer....
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Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...become confused about the differences between feedback and coaching, and often mix these techniques. This can sometimes be confusing and demotivating for both parties and may not lead to change. In addition, the behaviour or issue identified may keep reoccurring (the feedback advice does not seem to be working) or seems to be part of a larger developmental issue. Consider...
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Tubman: The Moses of Her People
History & The Arts

Tubman: The Moses of Her People

...become a rescuer of slaves, what did she contribute to the movement against slavery, and how should we see her today? Tubman was born around 1820, at a time when the United States were already deeply divided about slavery. The southern states made extensive use of slaves, and were defiant about keeping them. The northern states did not have slavery, but they were...
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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...become all too obvious in the Colston 4 case (R v Graham & Ors [2022] Bristol Crown Ct (unreported). A few newspaper headlines are included in the presentation which illustrate how, for some, the case was interpreted. Debates on talk radio at the time centred on the erasing of history, the reality of our history, and the positives to be garnered from empire and...
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Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...becomes part of a complicated labyrinth with other texts (Orr, 2011) – this practice of citation is a form of respectful acknowledgement. It acknowledges the contribution to knowledge that others have made and reflects the extent to which academic ideas are not shaped in splendid isolation but are always based on and emerge through interaction with others. It is not...
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Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...become Director of Development for the Natural History Unit. In 2002 he co-presented ‘Going Ape’, a film that took Alastair to the Ivory Coast in Africa. He has produced ‘Deep Blue’, a cinematic movie of the world’s oceans and he was one of the presenters and Executive Producer of the innovative live broadcast ‘Live from the Abyss’. He was Series Producer...
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