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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE, is interviewed by Roger Harrabin for 'Stories of Change'...[Professor Lord Nicholas Stern] Lord Nicholas Stern, Kt, PBA, FRS, is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Chairman of its Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He is...
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Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...research and my teaching, in community activism, community politics, and these murals are a wonderful window into communities, what communities think, what communities fear, what the odds are for communities to find a new vision to replace an old vision, and so that they are wonderful tool for that. Audio [Protestant Prince William of Orange – King Billy – crossing...
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Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...children close to an asbestos plant. Previous cases covered only those working at the plant. The judge ruled that from 1933 onwards, when the claimants were living in the area, the defendants must have known of the dangers to them of the asbestos dust, and had taken no reasonable steps to reduce or prevent the emissions. The liability related specifically to mesothelioma,...
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Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...research diver, scientist and photographer for the British Antarctic Survey, before changing direction to full time filming in 1983. Since then he has become one of the world’s best known and respected cameramen. He specialises in natural history, expeditions and science documentaries in some of the wildest and most remote places on our planet, particularly the polar...
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A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...centred in one object. The dust of many a knightly Noel lies mouldering within the church, and the remembrance of them may, perchance, fade away with their ashes. But there is one name united with the Noels which the world will not willingly let die, and there is one form now sleeping far away, round which many associations of touching interest cling - a form still...
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The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...centred on the likely impact on its relations with the EU and the possible economic fallout. The finance minister Anton Siluanov said that Brexit was likely to be less significant for Russia’s economy than shocks it has experienced over the past two years. Aleksei Kudrin, an ex-finance minister and influential adviser to President Vladimir Putin, tweeted that there...
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Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...centre of this entirely new kind of view. The town is framed by a thick “Amphitheatre, or white Floor of Clouds”. Drawing clouds was clearly not one of Baldwin’s strengths. They are crudely worked, knobbly protuberances, signs for clouds (the first classification of clouds was made sixteen years later by Luke Howard). The concentric circles formed by these rings of...
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Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
Society, Politics & Law

Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955

...centred rent strikes during the period of ‘Red Clydeside’ around the First World War, producing from within its ranks highly influential trade union leaders and political activists like Willie Gallacher and John McLean among others. According to the Daily Worker, the Saracen foundry in Springburn in the North of Glasgow voted for solidarity strike action (Daily...
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