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Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...central roundel which contains, upon inspection, the plan view of a town and its river. This is Chester, fondly placed at the centre of this entirely new kind of view. The town is framed by a thick “Amphitheatre, or white Floor of Clouds”. Drawing clouds was clearly not one of Baldwin’s strengths. They are crudely worked, knobbly protuberances, signs for clouds (the...
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DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...central point so that it can swing up and down. The protractor should be centred on the pivot, from which the plumb line should be suspended. Using a compass, mark out a line on the ground that runs north to south. Make sure that your quadrant is set up so that its aiming beam is parallel to this north-south line. [a quadrant for measuring latitude] A quadrant for...
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Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...central to who Sarah is. In the past, she has been a trustee, a volunteer policy advisor for the charity Children in Wales, a Royal Navy Reservist, a volunteer with an armed forces youth group, a community councillor, and a school governor. Some of these experiences are more recent, while others are from when she was much younger, even as a child. She thinks those...
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Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
Society, Politics & Law

Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955

...Central Scotland simultaneously fought for the principle of 100% trade unionism (the closed shop) and for equal pay. A UK-wide petition for equal pay for women engineers organised by the AEU (Amalgamated Engineering Union) had been in circulation and was delivered to the Westminster Parliament. This was followed by a demand by five engineering unions to employers on 21...
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Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...centrally involved in the project, as well as those directly and indirectly affected by it, considering both during and following the project itself. [An ecological representation of the web of potential relationships in educational research with the forcibly displaced.]Figure 1 An ecological representation of the web of potential relationships in educational research...
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Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?
Nature & Environment

Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?

...central Bangladesh Within hours the highway had been closed, and hundreds of people had gathered in protest, demanding compensation for the victim’s family and that the tiger declared a man-eater and shot. I thought these were hardly demands that required protest. This was established protocol for when people were killed by wild cats. Things got worse the next day. The...
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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...central to CoAE. It acknowledges that telling one’s story can be both empowering and exposing. The risk of emotional labour is real, and safeguarding researchers’ wellbeing becomes an ethical imperative. Critics also warn that autoethnography can become self-indulgent becoming closer to memoir than method. Yet, as Lapadat (2017) and others note, this criticism often...
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Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...Central Essex Mind A local branch of national mental health organisation Mind, with BAME support resources and ally information. https://www.seandcessexmind.org.uk/ https://www.seandcessexmind.org.uk/post/bame-support-resources-and-ally-information South West Rethink Mental Illness Bristol BME Service The service supports the mental health needs of people from Black and...
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