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Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board

...class and hierarchy in empire? The EMB nevertheless had a fairly small budget, which was further cut due to general austerity measures in the depression, with the organisation as a whole being disbanded in September 1933. After its demise, the film collection it had built up at the Imperial Institute in London changed hands, but was still maintained there. Influential EMB...
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Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age
History & The Arts

Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age

...class-controlled trade and politics, and the country’s “Golden Age” was far from evenly distributed. And while in theory the relatively new country was a republic, in practice its head of state had at times been the first-born son of the House of Orange, a powerful and popular aristocratic family that had led military efforts towards independence. By the late 1660s,...
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Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...de Janeiro will be given cash awards at par with the medal winners of last month's Olympic Games. "Gold medallists of #Paralympic Games are entitled to Rs 75 Lacs, Silver Rs 50 Lacs & Bronze Rs 30 Lacs as cash award from MYAS," the Ministry tweeted from its official handle. "This cash award to the #Paralympic medallists is at par with medallists of #Olympics," it added....
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Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...class backgrounds caught up in the left and anti-fascist movements of the 1930s. Several join (and leave) the British Communist Party in the ensuing years, but the historical significance of that earlier period evolves to encompass changing public and private loyalties. Above all, this is reflected through the question of espionage when the activities of one prompt...
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Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...class boys, such as the ‘Playing for Success’ programme promoting footballers as role models, and the REACH Programme using mentors to raise the attainment of young black men. The trend has continued under the Conservative-led Coalition, for example in the ‘Troops for Teachers’ programme which recruits ex-Service personnel to work in schools. An influential report...
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The rural dimension – after rundale
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – after rundale

...class of ‘peasant proprietors’, the owner occupiers of the small farms. Staunchly conservative in culture, attitudes, politics and agricultural practice, this class came to dominate rural society. The deep attachment to land, a characteristic of traditional rural societies, featured strongly amongst these farmers for whom the land had been hard won. They remained...
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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...class, gender, disability and other forms of discrimination’ (Lander and Gillborn 2020, italics in the original). CRT is encompassing of and sensitive to ‘intersectionality’ (Crenshaw, 1989; 1995). ‘Intersectionality’ is a concept and analytical framework to analyse how aspects of a person's social and political identities/social characterisations, such as race,...
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Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott
Health, Sports & Psychology

Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott

...class district of Dublin), Lynott lived at the intersection of race and class in a predominantly white and conservative Ireland. While his upbringing instilled in him ‘an acute sense of national and gender identity’ (Smyth, 2005, p. 39), his skin colour and illegitimacy made him the target of racial and social prejudice. Lynott’s music became a way for him to...
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