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Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside
Society, Politics & Law

Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside

...20th century, which takes the story up to the beginning of the Second World War 2. The central chapters focus on events around World War One) iii. MacAskill, K., 2019, Glasgow 1919 The Rise of Red Clydeside, London, Biteback. (Sketches in background material but provides a more focused account of the key events of the core Red Clyde years 1915-22 and especially 1919.) The link below summarises MacAskill’s views and ......
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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...central China’s Hubei province, villagers have reported deaths from cancer and are concerned about phosphogypsum dumped in the area by a local company, shown in Figure 2. Phosphogypsum is a by-product of making fertiliser and it contains cancer-causing chemicals such as arsenic, uranium and radium. [Described image] Figure 2 Phosphogypsum slag heap in Sichuan Despite...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Florida just wants it over
Society, Politics & Law

Florida just wants it over

...Central Florida college town of Gainesville. In St. Pete, as it’s known, I encountered the annual conference of the Southern Historical Association, a biker convention, and more stag and hen parties than you can shake an inflatable penis at. In Gainesville, home to the University of Florida, there’s an annual arts festival in full swing right now, but it’s also home...
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Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?
Money & Business

Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?

...central banks). A tightening of budgets during ‘austerity’ had only partially offset this when, in 2020, the pandemic pushed government deficits back up to record peacetime levels. With no political appetite for sharp fiscal or monetary tightening, aggregate demand may have been ramped-up significantly faster than supply. This only returned to pre-pandemic levels in...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...central. The main scheme was universal - everyone had a right to it based on contributions. Only if supplementary help was needed did the 'means test' come into play, enquiring into your savings and your circumstances - who lived with whom, who was dependent on whom, and so on. Alongside these financial security provisions for all, there would be universal access to...
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How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

...central to managing the ongoing stressors of a caregiving role and meeting everyone’s needs. The changes to lifestyle caused by COVID have prevented this way of coping, and forced people to live with changes in routine, uncertainty and worry. For more research about Covid-19 pandemic and carers see our current research study. Many people routinely manage stress by...
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Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
OpenLearn Ireland

Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora

...Central Statistics Office (2022), Population and Migration Estimates, April 2022. https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-pme/populationandmigrationestimatesapril2022/ (accessed 09 March 2023) Lynch-Brennan, M. (2006), ‘Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930’ in Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the...
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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...central computer where everything that is happening in our bodies and minds gets processed (read more in our article The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'). We do not know exactly how our organs, including the brain, will be affected by ageing and which might be affected first, which makes predicting age-related decline a difficult task within one individual as well as in...
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