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Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...history and environmental programme making. You could call it a natural history of natural history, and one of the things I really love about the collection is that we go all the way from Desmond Morris and David Attenborough to digital natives who are working in entirely new ways with their media. I think that we hope that a whole range of people will find this material...
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The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries
Society, Politics & Law

The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries

...History Online: The National Federation of Women Workers Working Class Movement Library 2014: The Woman Worker, September 1907, Volume 1 Number 1 The Ryedale Strike, 1912 On Friday March 22nd, 1912, 150 women employed as ‘fingerers’ at Ryedale came out on strike. Though they were not union members, on Tuesday 26th, a Scottish NFWW organiser, George Dallas, arrived in...
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Article 10 mins
Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
Languages

Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...history of Vienna continues after the signing of the State Treaty in 1955. Even long after the Austrian empire has ceased to exist, Vienna remains a hub of international encounters and a meeting place for cultures. Here are the stories of some of Vienna’s people who are commemorated in places around the city. The short descriptions just sketch their lives and...
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How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...family members and representatives of various Trump business interests are the names of Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Eric Bolling, all of whom in some way or another are associated with Fox News. Fox News (current chairman and acting CEO, Rupert Murdoch) has been actively championing the political ambitions of Trump for some five years and despite the...
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'Can anybody hear us?' The Day After, 40 years on
History & The Arts

'Can anybody hear us?' The Day After, 40 years on

...History, and Mark Fryers, Lecturer in Film & Media, sat down to discuss the political and social impact of the film to mark the 40th anniversary of its broadcast. Q: What was the climate of 1983? How did tensions and anxieties reach the boiling point demonstrated in The Day After? Luc-André: In the years after the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis there had been a period of...
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Article 5 mins
Do animals really raise human babies as their own?
Nature & Environment

Do animals really raise human babies as their own?

...history and popular culture tells of children raised by wolves and more. Do these stories have any basis in truth?...I recently became a first-time mother. In addition to my daughter, Myrtle, I share my home with a motley collection of rescued animals including dogs, cats, horses, chickens and pigs. This multi-species, multi-generational co-habitation – along with the...
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Britain's Fat Fight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Britain's Fat Fight

...family...With Britain now the most obese country in western Europe, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in his TV series Britain’s Fat Fight is on a mission: asking food producers, restaurants and the government to confront the crisis. Two-thirds of us are already overweight and there's no doubt that our poor diet and lack of exercise is slowly killing us, as well as crippling...
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Article 10 mins
Could you work in end of life care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Could you work in end of life care?

...families? Working with people who are dying can be both rewarding and emotionally draining. ...Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. In this interactive you'll explore how nurses interact with the dying person and their families, how they deal with distress and how they cope working in these environments. Turn up your...
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