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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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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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Article 20 mins
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...becomes a major industry you’re finding that people who perhaps have automotive interests who have better insights on how to develop braking systems are bringing things across from other sectors into the wind sector. That is not going to produce radical reductions in costs, but you’re going to come down the cost curve gradually, certainly with wind, and in some parts...
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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...become expert readers, we may begin to see some flaws in the workmanship or in the coherence of the design itself. But as beginning students our first task is to become aware of the pattern of meanings which can be discerned in the novel we are studying. It is only with practice and experience that we shall begin to see that the flood of books we call novels have features...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...become a geographer fit for the twenty-first century. The six videos that make up this field trip have been carefully produced to ensure that the contributors you hear and see speak directly to the issues of the climate crisis; their views, in other words, are not mediated by a narrator. Such directness not only adds an urgency to the debate around the climate crisis, but...
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Article 5 hrs