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Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...History in Focus: Empire Films British Film Institute: information on classic films (clips only via a registered institution, but a good range of Empire Marketing Board film clips including less well known short films on British subjects) Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire This includes some films directly relating to the online articles above, for example...
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Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context
Society, Politics & Law

Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context

...history, and perhaps in the political history of the UK over the past century and more. During this era a number of events took place which shook the British establishment and which had the potential to generate widespread economic, social and political conflict, creating the opportunity for socialist rebellion in the then ‘Second City’ of the British Empire, Glasgow....
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Harry Potter and Parenting
Education & Development

Harry Potter and Parenting

...family, tell us about parent-child relationships?...The orphaned child is a familiar figure in children’s literature. Getting parents out of the way is often a necessary precursor that enables child protagonists to embark on adventures without adult interference. But in J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter series, the young hero’s parentless state is more than a mere plot...
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Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...family and friends who don’t speak the local language. Termed ‘child language brokers,’ their rapid language learning at school means they often linguistically mediate on behalf of family very soon after arrival — they also find themselves acting as cultural mediators as they navigate different institutional practices, norms and values. The brokering, which takes...
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How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility
Society, Politics & Law

How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility

...family and citizenship. When people's lifecourse is in tune with opportunities to migrate, access employment opportunities and combine this with raising families, they can build their cultural, social and economic resources for social mobility matter. Firstly, our analytical framework highlights interconnections across these micro, meso and macro levels. For example,...
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The Celtic origins of the Welsh language
Education & Development

The Celtic origins of the Welsh language

...family, and trace the journeys of the peoples who shaped its evolution. Along the way, we’ll uncover surprising links between ancient migrations, cultural exchange and the words we use today. This map shows where Celtic languages are spoken in Europe. [Map showing where Celtic languages are spoken in Europe including Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall.]...
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The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s
OpenLearn Ireland

The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s

...family' FATHER JAMES MCDYER: My ideal was that we would start a whole community family here, everybody working for everybody else, but I was too idealistic in that matter. But the fact remains that by the few or by the many that local cooperation is probably the only way I know how to vitalise an isolated and a low resource community such as ours. Conditions were quite...
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Why books are a lifeline for prisoners
Society, Politics & Law

Why books are a lifeline for prisoners

...families, the future, of life outside. Relaxed and emotionally open, it was an unusual conversation for any group of men. In the confines of a prison, it was remarkable and moving. By a quirk of timing, I was visiting two prisons in Northern Ireland to talk about books during the very week when the Justice Minister, Chris Grayling, was explaining to the world that such...
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