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Climate Change, Coastal Erosion and Flooding: The Thames Gateway and London
Society, Politics & Law

Climate Change, Coastal Erosion and Flooding: The Thames Gateway and London

...working for the Environment Agency, Swale Borough Council and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, as well citizens whose homes and livelihoods are at risk from coastal erosion. The film we made examines the measures that are being taken in the Thames Gateway to plan for the problems of flooding and coastal erosion as a result of climate change. Building...
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After Manchester: The strength of the city
Digital & Computing

After Manchester: The strength of the city

...work and children will go to school. As one head teacher put it in an email to parents today: Normality is a comfort in difficult times. But we must brace ourselves for what will inevitably emerge in the coming days. As the identities of the victims, some of them children, are revealed and we see their innocent faces, the true horror of this attack will hit us. And what...
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SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...work is fairly obvious and mundane – insulating buildings, converting to low carbon energy, sourcing, reusing and recycling materials locally. There is no need to wait for another wave of high-tech innovation to save us, but we do need to invest substantial amounts in developing the necessary skills and knowledge so that we can implement (existing) technologies...
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Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters
Languages

Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters

...work tests and incapacity benefits. London poverty was realised in unaffordable house prices and living costs. Rochdale was labelled ‘the most deprived area of England’ and the ‘sick note capital’ of Britain. And one newspaper even published a ‘Workshy map of Britain’, singling out areas such as Birmingham and Glasgow for scrutiny. Thus, we could see that...
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‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?
History & The Arts

‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?

...worked initially as a coal miner and later as a railway clerk. The precise date of the tune is unclear; the first known use of it was in 1907 in Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd. [Photo of Capel Rhondda in Hopkinstown]Capel Rhondda, Hopkinstown where John Hughes first performed his ‘Cwm Rhondda’ tune in 1907. Photo by The National Churches Trust. Two important...
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Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Nature & Environment

Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26

...work; in higher education, many universities are setting goals consistent with COP26’s aims and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, often spurred on by student pressure. More than half of UK universities have already committed to divest or have already divested (over £15 billion) and many have reinvested a significant ­­­­proportion of these funds in...
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What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
History & The Arts

What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?

...work of food historians, you can recreate Victoria's Victoria sponge...Mrs Beeton would have been a disaster on Great British Bake Off. In her first published recipe – “A Good Sponge Cake” – the famed Victorian domestic goddess forgot to explain how much flour was required. Hardly a trifling oversight – but nothing that would have troubled Bake Off finalists,...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...works in which the institution of marriage was assailed and love promoted as a partnership of equals. For Shelley, the ideas in these books were a design for living. By the end of the twentieth century, of course, ideas of free love were not nearly as politically subversive as they were in the 1810s. But in Gothic, Russell nevertheless exploits this element of the story...
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