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World-Changing Women: Alexandra Kollontai
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Alexandra Kollontai

...working in the appalling textile factories. Read her story here... Alexandra Kollontai 1872 - 1952 Russia Revolutionary Politics [Alexandra Kollontai image] Photograph of Alexandra Kollontai In pre-revolutionary Russia, aristocratic women’s lives were expected to revolve around domesticity and family responsibilities. Alexandra Kollontai, however, who was inspired by...
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Why has the welfare cap become so complex?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has the welfare cap become so complex?

...working aged families introduced in April 2013 has been one of the most supported policies introduced by the coalition. By setting the maximum eligibility at the median household income and excluding those working over 16 hours (24, if two workers) voters saw it as an equitable constraint which could, with support, also help people to better their circumstances by finding...
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The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...working as an NHS nurse, and spent the rest of his life in the UK. His mother now believes that he was a victim of the Government’s so-called ‘hostile environment’ policy which was introduced by Theresa May when she was Home Secretary. The ‘Windrush scandal’ came to light as a result of excellent investigative journalism by Amelia Gentleman in The Guardian and...
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Open Talks - Wales: Music Nation
History & The Arts

Open Talks - Wales: Music Nation

...worked on the programme discuss Wales’ legacy as the land of song and reflect on their highlights from the programme. This event took place on Wednesday, 18 January, 2023 as part of the Open Talks series of events run by The Open University in Wales. Read more about the OU experts who took part below. [Dr Martin Clarke] Dr Martin V. Clarke Head of Discipline (Music),...
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Mental Health: Lennox Castle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental Health: Lennox Castle

...working in the largest mental deficiency hospital in Britain? And what changes led to its relatively recent closure? In it's heyday in the 1970s, Lennox Castle Hospital in Scotland housed over 1600 patients in purpose built multi-occupancy villas, and most staff lived on site or in nearby Lennoxtown. Oral historian Howard Mitchell started his working life there, as a...
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Do boys need male role models?
Education & Development

Do boys need male role models?

...social behaviour. It is often argued that positive ‘male role models’ are increasingly absent from home, schools, childcare settings, and the media - and that involving more men in young men’s education and care is key to solving many of the difficulties they face. But perhaps this ‘commonsense’ view is simplistic. Is it really the case that children learn adult...
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Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping
Money & Business

Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping

...Social labelling is a signpost intended to help time-poor shoppers make quick and responsible choices. Social labelling or ‘eco’-labelling on clothing should reassure us about the back story of the item, for example, were the garment workers paid fair wages; was any environmental harm caused by the processing of the textiles; was child labour used to harvest the...
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A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...work of thousands of social workers. Child protection has gone through many changes over the past century, re-defining its objectives as our understanding of abuse has changed. Now it includes not only neglect, economic exploitation, and cruelty, but emotional, psychological, and sex abuse as well. So child protection enters the 21st century with a substantial depth of...
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