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A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people
Society, Politics & Law

A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people

...family - the chough. Is there a connection between this bird and Celtic speaking areas? ...[Red-billed Chough standing] A red-billed Chough. The chough is by far the least common member of the crow family (corvidae) in Britain and Ireland. The other members include the very common carrion crow, hooded crow, magpie, rook and jackdaw, as well as the furtive but widespread...
The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...History courses and qualifications [Our] ash was mingled in the ovens - why should we be remembered separately…? (Woolford & Wolejszo S, 2006). [Forced Roma female labourers at Ravensbrϋck concentration camp] Forced Roma female labourers at Ravensbruck concentration camp The Roma (also known as Gypsies, Travellers, Sinti, Romani) are one of Europe’s oldest ethnic...
Wales and music: a conversation with Huw Stephens
History & The Arts

Wales and music: a conversation with Huw Stephens

...history of music in Wales. His work on music, theology and religion has been principally focused on music and religious practice in Britain since the eighteenth century, and in the Methodist movement more widely. [Dr Helen Barlow] Dr Helen Barlow Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences The Open University Dr Helen Barlow researches into the social and...
Multiculturalism Bites
History & The Arts

Multiculturalism Bites

...history of multiculturalism? What are the arguments for and against its various forms? Has it failed? Does it have a future? The Open University's Nigel Warburton interviews ten leading thinkers about the meaning and implications of multiculturalism. David Edmonds introduces each episode... Tariq Modood on The History of Multiculturalism In this interview Tariq Modood...
The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"
Society, Politics & Law

The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"

...history, debates in the media are already focusing on what to call the tragic event. Was it a queerphobic attack, yet another instance of Islamist terrorism targeting “the West” – or simply the case of a man who, in the words of his ex-wife, was “mentally unstable”? Contributing to the heated debate, the father of the shooter told NBC News that his son was...
Selling Empire: Introduction
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Introduction

...family, with the housewife building Empire through her shopping choices. The ‘Empire Christmas Pudding’ poster shown here, from 1928, is a good example of how the EMB used diverse marketing tools, such as posters, menus, talks on BBC radio and publicity stunts, such as the cooking of a seven-foot high Empire Christmas pudding. The poster was followed in 1930 by a film...
Protest Banners: Hillsborough
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Hillsborough

...history, they were made cheaply so that they could be numerous – fitting competition for a newspaper with mass circulation perhaps? And clearly, a great deal of thought has gone into them. At the top of the first is a reproduction of The Sun’s own masthead –this version dripping in blood. Below that we are reminded of The Truth we do know as opposed to that claimed...
Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...history of his commemoration, and how this sheds light on our understanding of English heritage...The first ever blue plaque to be put up in London was on the front of the house in which Lord Byron was born. Or at least, it was on the house in which those who were running the scheme believed he’d been born (see Commemorating Lord Byron on Holles Street). There remains...