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From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story
Education & Development

From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story

...Law. My experience with the OU has been profoundly positive; its flexibility, accessibility and exceptional lecturers allowed me to thrive at a time when I needed it most. During this journey with the OU, I discovered a deep commitment to disability rights and the law, and in 2019 I showcased my work at my TEDx Presentation there. I spoke about how assistive technologies...
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The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...law via the Human Rights Act 1998, guarantees the right to respect for private and family life (Human Rights Act 1998; European Convention on Human Rights, 1950). This right is frequently invoked in cases where public reporting of a parent’s or family members sentencing may result in undue harm to their children or family life. When offenders are parents, the law often...
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Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...law. The outlaws With one exception, all of the outlaws considered in this article were real people in American society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. John Hardy (?–1894) was a black railroad worker who killed a co-worker in a dispute over a game of cards in 1893 (Cox, 1919). Lee Shelton, aka Stack O’Lee, aka Staggerlee (1865–1912) was a...
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Understanding PCSO powers
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding PCSO powers

...law and Section 24A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. If the power is conferred upon them by a Chief Constable, a PCSO can detain a person for up to 30 minutes to allow for a police officer to arrive who might arrest the person. If the suspect does not comply with this, then they commit a further offence. This varies from one police area to another. For...
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Brexit: On the vote in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: On the vote in Wales

...Scot-free UK? The silver lining of the leave vote is therefore that it should – although I won’t hold my breath – prompt some soul-searching. It must trigger a national conversation in Wales about politics, the nature of devolution, our economic model, the media, and so on. For once, we have to think long-term about our future. The result has usefully illuminated...
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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...Scots-Irish settlers of the eighteenth century, Irish migrants to the United States in the nineteenth century tended to settle in cities such as Boston, New York and Chicago, though many Irishmen also laboured on canal and railway construction projects across the country. While the initial wave of Irish Catholic emigrants was predominately male, Irish women began to...
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The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982

...Scots term for unemployment benefit, quoted in Evening Times on 18 January 1982). Lovable Bra Lovable Bra was established in Atlanta, Georgia, by Frank Garson in 1926. Throughout the twentieth century, it continued to grow and expand, becoming one of the largest bra manufacturers in the United States. In the 1960s, the firm looked to establish a manufacturing base in the...
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The City: The Roman and Greek Cities
History & The Arts

The City: The Roman and Greek Cities

...laws and institutions of government promote the general good. More than this, however, Aristotle saw the polis, in essence the city, as the ideal model for the state and therefore as a natural entity with its roots in the mysterious world of human nature. When Greeks explored beyond the Aegean they did so as colonists, building new cities on the model of their homelands....
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