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Carnival and the performance of heritage
History & The Arts

Carnival and the performance of heritage

...history of the area which some of its residents might prefer to forget. The album also contains academic perspectives from Susie West, Lecturer in Heritage Studies at The Open University; Hakim Adi, Reader in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at Middlesex University; and Ruth Tompsett, Visiting Lecturer in Carnival Studies at Middlesex University. This...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...histories, and religious ideas of virtues and vices, to focus instead on what we are, and can accomplish, in terms of our universal nature. [Tobacco Plantation, detail of a print by Richard H. Laurie, from 1821.] Human rights hero? [Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information war poster (1941–1945).]While he was not the first to set it out, John Locke...
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How the stove changed the kitchen
Society, Politics & Law

How the stove changed the kitchen

...families from around Britain looking back on the first half of the twentieth century suggests that the impact of the stove on room function occurred later in these households. The autobiographers revealed that it was not just the poorest families who lacked a gas stove at the turn of the century. Even better-off working class families described making this switch in the...
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Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...families have migrated to the UK made visible through documentary photography...[Photos from Karen Horsley] Although there is often a surprise at the idea of young children using cameras intentionally to communicate and tell visual stories, my study, and others before, exemplifies their ability to do so. Building on the idea that children have funds of knowledge that they...
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Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic
Society, Politics & Law

Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic

...family members in public housing and worked at low-paid jobs to save money for college. He also volunteered for local politicians. That led to recommendations for paid work and eventually Hussen got a job working for a Liberal Party candidate who eventually became Premier of Ontario. He left that to become president of the Canadian Somali Congress and community...
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Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron

...history?...[Profile of Lord Byron] Lord Byron Likes : travel, lust, poetry Dislikes: social institutions, criticism, conformity Age: 236 Personality traits: artistic, creative, passionate, mysterious A bit about me: Love first touched my soul at the mere age of 8 when I set eyes upon my distant cousin Mary Duff. I was later to learn of her marriage, and ‘it nearly threw...
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Exploring Greek vases
History & The Arts

Exploring Greek vases

...history, and as a result these vases have exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society. These films show how you can an insight into Greek civilisation by observing the designs on the ceramics that have been acquired by these museums. The Open University’s Jessica Hughes analyses their religious mythology and Lucilla Burns discusses...
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Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...History Unit, shares his insights into the extent to which environmental issues can be incepted into blue-chip natural history programming; and what the benefits of opening up the BBC's archive could be, in particular when it comes to the future of crafting climate change messages...Dan Rees Dan has worked at the BBC Natural History Unit since 1997, producing, directing...
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