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Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...writing, based on subject matter and linguistic register. In the ‘Introduction’ to Windrush Songs, the poet James Berry, born in Jamaica in 1924, describes the situation facing the people of the Caribbean in the late 1940s: None of us wanted to grow up poverty stricken. We didn’t want to grow up without knowledge of the world. We certainly didn’t want to grow up...
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The author at home
History & The Arts

The author at home

...writing about the history and the cultural work of the writer’s house museum for my latest book. The first writer’s house that admirers visited after he died in 1374 was Petrarch’s in Arqua, Italy. But what did these admirers hope to find? One of the earliest comments on the oddness of this impulse to visit dead authors at home is the elaborate practical joke known...
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Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium

...writing. They were Thai weightlifters Sukanya Srisurat and Sopita Tanasan, and Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh. Schooling’s victory was special because it gave Singapore its first ever Olympic gold medal. IT'S OFFICIAL: #SIN has its first-ever #Olympics champion in Joseph Isaac Schooling https://t.co/kbxECeEGGw pic.twitter.com/OJjAc8UiVP — Channel NewsAsia...
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Remembering Gary Slapper
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Gary Slapper

...writes: It is with great sadness that the death of Professor Gary Slapper is announced. Gary first joined the OU in 1997 and was instrumental in the founding of the OU Law School and the UK’s first taught distance law degree (offered jointly in partnership with the then College of Law). He became the OU’s first Professor of Law giving his inaugural lecture ‘Yes, but...
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Why school is bad for us - an inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Rix
Miscellaneous

Why school is bad for us - an inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Rix

...writing for the Times Educational Supplement (TES), and former Education Editor of the Mirror and the Independent. He is the author of The Thirty Years War, a book about teacher reform. Teresa Cremin’s view is that schools are not necessarily bad for us, but that the performance activity agenda (Ball, 2003) currently restricts the ways in which teachers and children...
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The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland

...Reveal answer: We were able to count 22, or 21 if you count the westernmost area as a single plot. It is also interesting to see that Jill Dale, writing on genealogy website County Mayo Beginnings, reported rundale being practised in County Mayo into the 1980s, long after the practice was thought to have died out (Dale, 2010) . Explore the articles in this collection ....
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Arendt
History & The Arts

Arendt

...writings on politics had profound philosophical resonances too. As I see it, her greatest achievement was that she stood up against two deep-flowing currents of twentieth century thought – one which tried to see the whole of public life in terms of conscience and personal morality, the other seeking to reduce it to clashes of economic or sectional interests. Her big...
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Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia

...writing (Spring 2022), Ethiopia is tearing itself apart in a tragic and costly civil war, severely impacting many areas where Sue worked, and which has resulted in famine. It is hoped this will end for the sake of the people and environment, which Sue dedicated her life’s work to. Sue followed Sylvia Pankhurst, the suffragette and activist, who also made Ethiopia her...
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