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Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...course around opening it up. And if we were to open it up, it needs to only be accessible to not for profits, educational charities and so on, but I think there’s a very strong argument for giving greater access to it. Opening BBC natural history archive online – the benefits I hope if we opened up our archive online it would be very good news for educators, it would...
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Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening
Society, Politics & Law

Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening

...course of the exhibition each recording is integrated into a living and growing sound installation. When heard all together these voices are an unidentifiable babble, however by tuning into a specific channel, each individual voice can be properly integrated, cutting through the noise, and generating its own impact as part of a collective. Giota: Certainly the questions...
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Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...courses. Setting the scene On 12 August 2022, Scotland’s highest circulation broadsheet newspaper, The Herald, carried a headline exclaiming ‘Nurses set to strike for first time in their history’. While the words made an eye-catching headline, they failed to recognise, and in effect denied, the history of industrial action by nurses, mainly women, in Scotland over...
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Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...free from the demands associated with being a man in a patriarchal culture. From this perspective, the puzzles, nonsense and fantasy that make up Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland books can be seen as creative outlets for simultaneously expressing and concealing anxiety about adult masculinity – and another way in which it is a deeply personal book despite its high...
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How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?

...free to remind Do chase editors who haven’t responded to an email within 24 hours, but don’t overdo it. An editor will be glad to be reminded if they have genuinely forgotten something, but remember that they are dealing with many other stories. Email or phone call? Editors can get hundreds of emails a day so be mindful of this. Some prefer phone calls, especially if...
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Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism

...free. ​ Our 'Arts and Languages Access module' – designed to develop the key skills required for successful university study – is an ideal starting point. You will be introduced to a range of absorbing subjects to prepare you for a wide range of qualifications in the humanities, including: art history English literature English language studies history modern...
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London's 1818 public health crisis
History & The Arts

London's 1818 public health crisis

...free circulation of air, patients labouring under chronic disorders cannoty with propriety be subjected to the same treatment, and a system of medical police which is essential ion the one case to prevent the spreading of the disease, becomes highly prejudicial in the other; besides, a greater prejudice prevails; and your Committee cannot consider it as unfounded, among...
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...but reading it might enable you to reflect further on O’Leary’s treatment of poetic form, nationalist themes and gender identity: Oh! Ireland, mother Ireland, is it true the tale they tell? That you shall reign a queen again; it makes my bosom swell With hope, and joy, and tenderness, to think of you ma stor Erect, triumphant, happy, free, as in the days of yore…...
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