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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...research on the contributions of Black people before and during the Tudor period. Transcript Encounters with historical events in genres that function as discursive actions within particular social, political and cultural frameworks influence how people engage with the past in which identities are created and sustained. Historical knowledge has the power to influence how...
The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...research/online-exhibitions/the-women-of-scotland/women-s-work/ (Accessed 4/1/23). Norwich and District Trades Council (2021) The Herring lassies’ Strike Norwich and District Trades Council Facebook (Accessed 4/1/23) Scottish Fish Museum (2022) The Herring Boom https://www.scotfishmuseum.org/the-herring-boom.php (Accessed 17/9/22). Unsworth, C. (2013). The British...
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...children in a household (adapted from DWP, 2016)...Environment: treading lightly on the Earth: 2.1.2 The effect of incomes and household types - The carbon footprints given in Section 2.1 are averages (means) for a UK inhabitant. But, as mentioned earlier, footprints differ considerably for different individuals and households. A factor which has a major effect on the...
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...children (and older athletes), alongside the presence of the coach, develop and test the moral dimensions of their evolving characters’. To help practitioners to work within these ethical and moral standards, organisations articulate codes of conduct to ensure that everyone knows what is expected...A question of ethics: right or wrong?: 2 Adhering to the code - Sport...
Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd

...research study’, JMIR Medical Education, [ar-lein]. Ar gael yn: https://www.jmir.org/2013/2/e18/ (Cyrchwyd: 3 Mehefin 2025). Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) (2023) The ASPiH Standards – 2023: guiding simulation-based practice in health and care, [ar-lein]. Ar gael yn :
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...children to being no longer capable of becoming pregnant (Northrup, 2012). This occurs as the levels of hormones gradually change, with a substantial fall over time in the production of oestrogen. For some people, this process might last for perhaps 4–5 years, while for others, it can take up to 12–13 years (Newson, 2019; Northrup, 2012). The following figure shows...
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...centred on measures of the spread of incomes across people. One approach often used by economists to consider the spread of incomes is the use of percentiles, deciles or quintiles to divide the population into groups of hundreds, tenths, fifths, respectively in order of income. The income share of each group can then be compared. Box 1 Percentiles, deciles and quintiles...
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...centring on a widowed teacher living in County Cork. Like many Irish writers before him, McPherson borrows from the past and exploits the uncanny in the everyday to play with the fears of his audience. But his brand of ghost storytelling also adds new elements that reflect a later twentieth-century Irish perspective. He deftly weaves the supernatural with humour, for...