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Lifecycle of the Car Industry
Money & Business

Lifecycle of the Car Industry

...become more standardized – costs fell and so did prices. And lower prices opened up the product to the mass market – cars were no longer just a hobby or a luxury item. "What 1910 signified in this industry is a turning point from a period of radical change, radical innovation to one of standardization, where the focus really began to be on producing cars much more...
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Working mothers in Scotland's railways
Society, Politics & Law

Working mothers in Scotland's railways

...becoming a working mother in Scotland’s Railway. One of the benefits was being able to work with her union to negotiate a flexible working agreement upon returning to work after her first child. Marie praised the union for their assistance during this time as it was all unknown territory to her and, sadly, the information coming directly from Scotrail at the time was...
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Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...becoming a harder and harder task and, as is well known, the data provided by Oxfam deals only with recorded wealth, with much of the wealth of the super-rich hidden away in assorted hide-a-ways around the world, the names of many of which are increasingly as familiar to us as are overseas holiday destinations. Visualising inequality This aside, it is a difficult task to...
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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...become clearer if we flip back two-and-a-half millennia to the men generally regarded as the first two historians. Writing in the fifth century BC, both Herodotus and Thucydides took the origins and course of war as their subject. In spite of this underlying similarity, the differences between them were profound. The Histories of Herodotus attempt to explain the causes...
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Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...Becoming a diffractive practitioner', Teacher Learning and Professional Development, 2(1), pp. 1–17. Jackson, N. (2019) Exploring Learning Ecologies, 2nd edition. Available at: https://www.lifewideeducation.uk/uploads/1/3/5/4/13542890/lulu_upload.pdf (Accessed: 26 January 2026). Lambert, L. (2021) 'Diffraction as an otherwise practice of exploring new teachers’...
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What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?

...become assimilated into white America and had failed to face themselves as true black people. Sting like a bee The events that followed Ali’s call-up by the military in February 1966 were dramatised by a background of growing resistance to the US involvement in the Vietnam War. Ali’s oft-quoted remark “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong” made headlines...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...become more accepting of the value of both medical herbalists and of the plant remedies that they use. A small number of medical herbalists are employed within the NHS, either in specialist outpatient departments or in doctors' surgeries. Other doctors refer patients on to herbalists and several universities now offer postgraduate training in herbal medicine for doctors....
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...Gottleib, Cambridge University Press. Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood Helen Morton, University of Hawaii Press. The Famished Road, Ben Okri, Vintage. Editor's Note: This page was originally published with an photograph of The Shilluk people in their village Yom - in Tonga, Sudan, rather than the Pacific Island of the same name to which the article referred....
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