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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...
Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...history of human society, a single language has become sufficiently universal that it can be used as a global lingua franca for communication between speakers of many languages. The history of English has traditionally been divided into three main phases: Old English (450-1100 AD), Middle English (1100-circa 1600 AD) and Modern English (since 1600). But it seems that...
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A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...family, and her inclusion in Byron's poetry, was enough to make her a subject of fascination. In 1853, The Leicester Chronicle sent a reporter to visit the memorial erected in her honour. This is his report...About ten or twelve miles from Leicester, in a westerly direction, situated on rather high ground and surrounded by trees, is the small village named Kirkby Mallory....
St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity
History & The Arts

St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity

...History of Welsh Music, which will be the first major academic study of Welsh music history. Drawing together the work of twelve leading scholars, it will examine Welsh music and musical life from the earliest medieval sources through to the ‘Cool Cymru’ phenomenon and twenty-first-century Wales’ reputation as a centre for creative media production. Helen Barlow and...
Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...family, but I knew my step-grandfather who was a palace chief (at that time, many towns and villages were ruled by monarchs). My Father, who was only seven at the time of his mother’s re-marriage, grew up under his step-dad and he lived with him until he was over twenty years of age. Despite having the freedom to play, sing and dance, I wouldn’t describe my childhood...
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...
175 years of women's activism in the EIS
Society, Politics & Law

175 years of women's activism in the EIS

...history, and the fight for women’s equality. [Eis poster, showing history of EIS over 175 years] The second poster in the series shows important points on the journey to equal rights in the workplace. [EIS poster showing improvements in the workplace over the 175 years in its history] The third poster in the series shows women’s issues brought to the fore, and EIS...
How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...history of the soap opera is, in fact, expressly political. The first British soap was Front Line Family (not The Archers as is commonly believed). Broadcast by the BBC on American shortwave radio in 1941, the programme followed a middle-class British family struggling through World War II. It was designed to promote US participation in the war by encouraging empathy with...