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How have family budgets changed in sixty years?
Money & Business

How have family budgets changed in sixty years?

...changes over those times, says the ONS' Joanna Bulman...[Shoppers queue in 1950s Bristol] Shoppers wait patiently in Bristol, during the 1950s. This year’s Family Spending report, which covers the financial year ending March 2017, marks the sixtieth year of results from a household expenditure survey – in its current form, the Living Costs and Food Survey (LCFS) –...
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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...change, exposing systemic barriers and encouraging active solutions. Understanding gender discrimination Gender discrimination in academia is complex and multifaceted, manifesting through unconscious bias, entrenched systemic barriers, and restricted access to leadership roles (Etzkowitz et al., 2020; Heilman and Caleo, 2018; Mott, 2022). The concept of intersectionality...
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How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...
OpenLearn Ireland

How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...

...changed his life. ...[British Prime Minister Tony Blair (R), US Senator George Mitchell (C) and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern (L) smiling on April 10, 1998, after they signed an historic agreement for peace in Northern Ireland, ending a 30-year conflict. ] Previous British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, US Senator George J. Mitchell and former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on...
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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...change in both Ireland and the United States, Irish Catholic migrants to America began to outnumber their Protestant counterparts by the early 1830s...Social and economic changes in both Ireland and the United States can be used to explain shifting patterns of Irish emigration in the nineteenth century. By the early 1830s, Irish Catholic migrants to America began to...
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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...change in the data provider a good idea? [The Met Office, Exeter] Sunny for now... The Met Office HQ in Exeter The Met Office has its origins in a service for mariners, set up in 1854 under the leadership of Robert FitzRoy, who had previously captained HMS Beagle on Darwin’s famous voyage. The organisation developed as part of the Ministry of Defence, with an important...
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Download your free booklet 'Young People: Changing times'
Education & Development

Download your free booklet 'Young People: Changing times'

...People: Changing times' to accompany the 'Child of Our Time 16' series. ...To download your free booklet, please click here. Download this free, 28 page booklet produced by The Open University, covering a wide range of topics relating to young people, including: The history of youth Changing bodies Young people: what's the problem? Thinking about social media Futures...
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Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma

...changed? Peter Keogh explores...[Charlie Sheen 2012] Charlie Sheen’s disclosure that he is HIV positive echoes a similar announcement made by another movie star, Rock Hudson 30 years earlier – and it’s interesting to compare the two cases. Both tried unsuccessfully to conceal their HIV status. Hudson was betrayed by his appearance: he was visibly unwell and his...
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Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues
Society, Politics & Law

Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues

...change issues? Joe Smith shares his journey through the archives in a two part podcast series...[BBC broadcast from the 60s] Press play to hear Joe’s thoughts, or read the transcript below. Transcript I’m Joe Smith, and for the last two years I’ve been one of a team of Open University environment researchers that have been working with a rare and precious resource....
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