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What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?

...study of South Asian young adult carers’ transitions to adulthood’. Available at: https://wels.open.ac.uk/research/projects/sattastudy ONS (2023) Unpaid care by age, sex and deprivation, England. Tables 1 and 7. Census 2021. Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/socialcare/datasets/unpaidcarebyagesexanddeprivationengland...
Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year

...table illustrating the 12 animal signs, corresponding to the years in their most recent cycle and next cycle together with their legendary order: Year (last cycle) Year (next cycle) Sign Character Pinyin Legendary order 2013 2025 Snake 蛇 shé 6 2014 2026 Horse 马 mǎ 7 2015 2027 Sheep 羊 yáng 8 2016 2028 Monkey 猴 hóu 9 2017 2029 Rooster 鸡 jī 10 2018 2030 Dog 狗...
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./DACS 2018. During the revolution, the Mexican bourgeoisie mobilised the radicalised peasantry and emergent working class to overthrow the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz who had been installed with the backing of the United States in 1876. And after the violence had subsided in the post-revolutionary period,...
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Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs
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Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs

...des Körpers wurde dann feierlich in der Kapuzinergruft begraben. Translation: When a Habsburg died, first of all - for purely practical reasons - the intestines were removed. They start decaying first and would have exuded a very unpleasant smell during the funeral ceremonies. Then the heart was removed. The heart is seen as the seat of the soul, and this heart was then...
Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition

...de-escalation and accessible activities that could help them find self-expression, comfort, and that did not feel too overwhelming or demanding. Arts, talking, nature, sound, and low light – candles and campfires – seemed soothing and releasing of our creative and symbolic efforts. So, my key reflections for International Menopause awareness day are: Take time for...
What is the Sport and Fitness Hub?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the Sport and Fitness Hub?

...de France during the 2024 Olympics in ParisShow descriptionA photograph of a stadium with a crowd of people outside it. What are the different resources and how long do they take to study? The resources vary, from articles that might take as little as five minutes to read, up to badged courses that take up to 24 hours to study. When you select a resource it will tell you...
Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?

...de Chastelain who ignored the writing on the wall of ‘not a bullet - not an ounce’, and who with colleagues made significant progress in taking many guns out of Irish politics. George Mitchell, Nancy Soderberg, Martha Pope and the arms inspectors Martti Ahtisaari and Cyril Ramaphosa are others who come to mind. We learned from South Africa and the Basque Country and...
Rastafari in Israel
History & The Arts

Rastafari in Israel

...de-essentialising Rastafari, and over the next year or so I will be conducting fieldwork in Rome and London with different Rasta communities and groups. I see my approach as one that focuses on religion in motion, and it is an approach I began to develop when I decided to investigate Rastafari in Israel for my Master’s Thesis. In March 2014, I conducted two weeks of...