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A Letter to Earth
Nature & Environment

A Letter to Earth

...English and address it directly to Earth. [Photo taken of Himalaya ] Dear Earth, We have been a part of you for eons and eons and you have nurtured many of our generations for all this time. We are conscious though that we have NOT inherited you from our ancestors but we have borrowed you from our descendants and we are deeply indebted to them for letting us live on...
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Can we design places to combat loneliness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we design places to combat loneliness?

...English, the team reviewed a large number of potentially relevant studies (over 7000!). They identified 57 studies which had directly looked at the relationship between the built environment and loneliness. The small number of studies internationally demonstrates that this is an area which needs more research. The studies included a focus on neighbourhood design, housing...
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Recycling: Putting consumers to work
Society, Politics & Law

Recycling: Putting consumers to work

...English households was disposed of at landfill with only 12% recycled. By 2013/14, landfill had fallen to 31% and rates of recycling had increased to 43%. Such statistics reveal a dramatic shift in the management of household waste. Consumers across England have been called upon to separate, to wash and to squash their paper, plastics and cardboard from the rest of the...
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OpenLearn with Working Wales | OpenLearn gyda Cymru'n Gweithio
Education & Development

OpenLearn with Working Wales | OpenLearn gyda Cymru'n Gweithio

...English Delivered by Careers Wales, Working Wales is the Welsh Government’s approach to delivering free, impartial, employability and careers advice to anyone aged 16+ and no longer in compulsory education. We can help you get the job you want by providing tailored advice and guidance that is responsive to you. Let us help you overcome whatever is stopping you getting a...
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Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...English nationalism aligned to concerns of immigration in England which led to Brexit. For those considering the UK as a union of four nations, the wishes of the majority of people in Northern Ireland and in Scotland (68% voted to remain) are being ignored. To those in Northern Ireland who consider themselves Irish, Brexit is seen as a diminishing both their Irish and...
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On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...English and very much representative of English art. You couldn’t find this clear space of sky over The Thames, and it made you go to the mouth of the Thames, and that of course connects with other countries with other journeys. You were talking about the relationship of the subject to law, there is a question of; through that journey of migration, but also through that...
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Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
History & The Arts

Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history

...English. Tavernier’s account of Turkish ‘seraglios’ – as European works of this time called the women’s quarters in Middle Eastern homes – explicitly situated lesbian sexuality as a ‘vice’ of the East. (It is also framed simply as a reaction to male homosexuality: in the absence of virile heterosexual men, women turn to each other, rather than this being a...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...English. Comparing childhoods in America today with those of the American Colonial period (1600-1775), they have written: ‘Today, a four year-old who can tie his or her shoes is impressive. In colonial times, four-year-old girls knitted stockings and mittens and could produce intricate embroidery: at age six they spun wool. A good, industrious little girl was called...
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