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The working-class garden
Society, Politics & Law

The working-class garden

...course she was a Lady. Laurie Taylor: Not a working class gardener? Margaret Willes: No she was gentry; but I think she represents – she wasn’t the only person who dispensed medicines, although she did it on quite a large scale to her tenants but I’m sure that the housewives were doing the same. Laurie Taylor: I want to turn now – and this is something you talked...
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The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...course, but at one place there was a large building brilliantly lighted, which from certain effects at the windows we decided to be a printing-office on the scale of those in and near our own Boston. What was our shame and grief the next morning to find it was a cigar factory, and to learn that cigar and cigarette making was almost the chief industry of the mother Boston....
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A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...languages, called Pijin English, and told us a bit about life and the Anglican church there. The following morning while my father was at the airport helping receive and allocate Enthronement guests, a man arrived from England who explained that +Desmond had invited him to come (his son was +Desmond’s godson, from the time our soon to be Archbishop was assistant curate...
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Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...language, segregation and ways of working which tend to disadvantage women as primary care givers (Norman, Rankin-Wright & Alison, 2018; Piggott & Pike, 2019, Women in Sport, 2018). [women kick boxing] Women in Sport’s recent research Beyond 30%, Workplace Culture in Sport (2018) found that there is a clear gap in how women and men feel in the sport workplace, with many...
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Disraeli on Munich
History & The Arts

Disraeli on Munich

...free, and as flowing as the genius of the great Mæonian. The chamber of the throne is entirely adorned with white bas-reliefs, raised on a ground of dead gold; the subjects Pindaric; not inferior in many instances to the Attic remains, and characterised, at the same time, by a singular combination of vigour and grace. Another saloon is devoted to Æschylus, and the...
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Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?
Society, Politics & Law

Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?

...free from by rape myths bias (Curley and Munro, 2023). Indeed, it could be contended that the criminal justice process during trial itself perpetuates rape myths, given the adversarial nature of the proceedings and the trial structure (Cowan, 2021). In order to sway juries, the adversarial process encourages lawyers to use psychological shorthand of rape mythology and set...
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Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...free of the censorious comments of official newsreel coverage. Other campaigning and pressure groups did the same, making films to advance their cause, whether it was religious, tee-total, anti-war, pro-strike or whatever. Pitted against the limited resources of these ‘outsiders’ were the limitless, official resources of the state, making film and videos as part of...
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A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...free milk, and medical treatment brought about improvements in the physical health of children, and led to a sense of public satisfaction that children were being cared for. [Help me] Then the death of five year old Maria Colwell, murdered by her step father in 1973, despite being supposedly under the protection of the local authority, shocked the nation. It seemed the...
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