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Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...Tomlinson, Jim; Phillips, Jim; Wright, Valerie (2022) "De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951-2001, and its broad implications", Business History, 64 (1), pp. 28–54. Wright, Valerie; Phillips, Jim; Tomlinson, Jim (2021) "Defending the right to work: the 1983 Timex workers' occupation in Dundee", Labour History Review, 86 (1), pp. 63–90....
The trailblazers of 2024 launch women’s sport into an exciting 2025
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trailblazers of 2024 launch women’s sport into an exciting 2025

...de Motocyclisme (FIM) launched the inaugural Women’s Circuit Racing World Championship, marking the first global platform exclusively for female riders. Women’s sport often emphasises technical skill, strategic gameplay, and creativity, offering a fresh perspective compared to the power-driven approach that dominates some men’s leagues. For fans who value a balance...
The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...became the first woman to win France’s famous composition competition, the Prix de Rome (which women had only been allowed to enter since 1903), in 1913 for her cantata Faust et Hélène. Despite her brief career, Lilian Boulanger also composed dozens of compositions, including piano works, songs, and several large-scale works for choir and orchestra....
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...de Bernières as they talk about their own experience of writing. And you’ll have the chance to share comments and ideas with your fellow writers while sampling how established authors such as Toni Morrison and Graham Greene have written and presented their characters. By the end of the course you’ll have learned tricks such as using a journal to generate ideas, the...
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...de Geus that said once that the only sustainable competitive advantage is to learn quicker than your opposition. So certainly in that context, I think there’s a challenge to policing to make sure that we do that. I think innovation is also fundamentally about making sure that we get the best from our single biggest resource, and that’s our people. I would say still,...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...De Agostini Editore/L Pedicini Activity 3 I’d now like you to read the poem’s last lines, which you can find by going to the section on Virgil’s Aeneid on the ‘Poetry in Translation’ website. You can find the relevant passage in Book 12 of the poem by clicking on the link ‘Bk XII:887–952 The Death of Turnus’. Read this passage carefully and make some notes...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...De Spectaculis (‘On the Spectacles’), written to commemorate the inaugural gladiatorial games which were held in the amphitheatre over a period of 100 days in 80 CE. Martial’s poetry was often overtly flattering to his imperial patrons, as the celebratory tone of the opening poem in the collection makes clear: Let savage Memphis speak not of the Wonders that are her...
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...de Dinteville on the left and Georges de Selve on the right, both in their twenties at the time. They stand above a cosmati marble floor – modelled on the one at Westminster Abbey – in front of a table laden with musical and scientific instruments. The celestial and terrestrial globes, mathematics text, lute, quadrant, and other objects depicted in vividly realistic...