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Protest Banners: Hillsborough
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Hillsborough

...law. Alongside the exhortation Don’t Buy the Scum is the badge of the South Yorkshire Police – the police force charged with safety and control at Hillsborough stadium on the day of the disaster but which has since been implicated in negligence on the day and attempts to systematically cover up The Truth of its actions as a force. And underneath ‘Don’t Buy the...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...Law - the indignities of means-tested payments for those in poverty and the fear among the old and impoverished of ending life in the workhouse. But the Labour government's landslide victory in 1945 (not quite as big as that in the 1997 election) was still very much about creating a new deal for 'the boys back from the front', giving them a sense that their country had...
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Timeline: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Timeline: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022

...have recommended she remain under medical supervision. The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral." Her four children, along with her daughters-in-law and Prince William and Prince Harry, travelled to be with her. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's death was announced that evening. She was 96 years old and had celebrated her Platinum Jubilee only a few months earlier....
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...Law A. (eds.) New Labour/Hard Labour - Restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry, Bristol: Polity Press. UNISON Scotland (2004) ‘Why we are on strike’: UNISON Scotland Nursery Nurses Reasons we are on strike (unison-scotland.org.uk) UNISON Scotland (2014) ‘10th Anniversary of Nursery Nurses’ Victory,’: UNISON Scotland Nursery Nurses
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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...laws’! The increasing recognition of England as England, as a nation, will of course only help to further loosen the already fraught ties that bind the UK and which also plays directly into the hands of the SNP. Gordon Brown has in recent months repeatedly attacked the Conservatives for the ‘damage’ he says that this is doing to the continuation of the Union. That...
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Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?
Society, Politics & Law

Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?

...law and polite society to survive. And make no mistake: they are indeed under threat in GE2017. Not because Theresa May, or the Tories, or the right in general are somehow naturally malevolent. Far from it. These values are under threat because of the issues that the present government is tapping into and the tools it is using to protect its Brexit agenda. It is in a...
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Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators
Society, Politics & Law

Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators

...Law, Crime and Justice, 61, p. 100365. Lennie, S. J. (2022) ‘Wellbeing and Work: It’s about time.’ Available at: https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OUPolicing/index.php/2022/11/04/wellbeing-and-work-its-about-time/ (Accessed: 21 November 2023). MacEachern, A. D., Dennis, A. A., Jackson, S. and Jindal-Snape, D. (2019) ‘Secondary traumatic stress: Prevalence and...
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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...Law Review, 43(6), pp. 1241–1299. Dillard, C. (2000) ‘The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen: examining an endarkened feminist epistemology in educational research and leadership’, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 13(6), pp. 661–81. Hill Collins, P. (2000) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and...
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