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Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan
Nature & Environment

Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan

...economic benefits that will result. The Alliance opened with 25 signatories. By the end of the 75-minute launch event on the second-last day of COP23 here in Bonn, El Salvador and Oregon had both signed on. By joining the alliance, governments commit to “phasing out traditional coal power and placing a moratorium on any new traditional coal power stations without...
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Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board

...economic and cultural community, and a way of enriching metropole and colonies alike. [EMB Canadian lumbermen] 'Canadian Lumbermen', by Frank Newbould, from the 'The Empire is Still Building' series of posters; 60 x 40 ins; displayed September-October 1930; (TNA) CO956/225 Typically, not just EMB posters but other Empire collections of the time, such as sets of cigarette...
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Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Economic Review, 2019, Vol.109 (2), pp. 325-352. Buck, Tim. ‘Imagining Imperial Modernity in British Colonial West Africa: Gerald Spencer Pryse’s Work for the Empire Marketing Board’. Art History 38, no. 5 (Nov. 2015), pp. 940-963. Chafer, Tony (ed.), Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (Palgrave, 2009). A collection that suggests...
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Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...economic, aesthetic, socio-cultural, artistic and political. Although not mutually exclusive, these levels are often in tension with each other. By taking the focus away from individual creativity and moving to a discussion of collective or social creativity we can try to understand how interaction across boundaries in jobs and projects (including those of the wider...
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The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times
Society, Politics & Law

The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times

...economic and political relationships that now bind the respective fortunes of Weetabix and Bright Food. But to figure that out, we’ll probably have to wait for the next instalment of the cereal tale. Update: Which, it turns out, was not a long wait. In mid-April of this year, Weetabix was returned to US ownership, sold to the Missouri-based, Post Holdings, a cereal...
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...economic and sex inequalities in educational achievement. It found the most disadvantaged pupils are working class white males. However, this disadvantage is not reflected in economic, health and employment outcomes of this cohort as they grow up. The methodology was also interesting: the study collected data from a recruited representative sample. It is significant that...
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History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Society, Politics & Law

History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

...economic potential of free movement while ignoring the social implications. They tended to ignore the potential for ruthless employers to exploit migrants and for racist parties to exploit local concerns. Both the 1968 Act and the Brexit referendum result arose within a climate of frustration and debate about Britain’s changing position in the world. In the 1960s,...
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EU Referendum - Sovereignty
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Sovereignty

...economic adviser Gerard Lyons suggests that the City of London – and the country – can now be stronger outside the EU, a verdict which helped to put the London Mayor on the opposite side to the Prime Minister in the referendum, debate. Reasons to Remain Financial markets dislike uncertainty, and the unclear consequences of a UK exit – compared to the reasonably...
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