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Forgotten families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forgotten families

...family member is in custody, such as financial instability as well as the incalculable trauma of being separated from a parent and often not being fully aware of why this has happened. The impact of separation is exacerbated by parental gender, with children of mothers imprisoned experiencing significant and enduring grief and isolation. This is further compounded by the...
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Siblings in the scrum: long history of brothers makes rugby a family affair
Society, Politics & Law

Siblings in the scrum: long history of brothers makes rugby a family affair

...family plays a key role in a child’s initial socialisation into sport and his or her continued participation. This family involvement is certainly evident on a Sunday morning at my local rugby club where siblings of both genders and all ages participate in a range of activities. Add to this the fact that as many of the mums and dads are former players who now help with...
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Herodotus 'The Histories'
History & The Arts

Herodotus 'The Histories'

...Histories’ with online mapping and an interactive map-and-narrative timeline 'mashup'...Explore ‘The Histories’ by Herodotus: an open enquiry [Herodotus] Marble bust of Herodotus Sometime in the middle of the 5th century BC, Herodotus, a Greek, living in a city called Halicarnassus (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) set out to explain the origins of the Great War from a...
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The history of Halloween
History & The Arts

The history of Halloween

...history isn’t everything. Times change. Emphases change. Some Christians are happy to join in the bonfires and amusements that celebrate changing seasons more than they revere faithful role models. Similarly, some Pagans gladly honour their ancestors at a time when those ancestors might have been more interested in the turning of the wheel of the year. If the histories...
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The history of soapmaking
History & The Arts

The history of soapmaking

...other products like Lifebuoy carbolic soap, Sunlight soap flakes and Vim, each of which became a household name. Reading Book 3 of ST240, Our Chemical Environment, The Open University Gibbs F.W., ‘The history of the manufacture of soap’, Annals of Science, vol. 4, pp. 169–90, 1939 Lucock Wilson R., Soap through the Ages, a Progress Book published by Unilever Limited...
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The history of surfing
Health, Sports & Psychology

The history of surfing

Surfing is now a popular pastime around the world, but just a few decades ago there were only a handful of places where you could surf properly. What changed to turn it into a global phenomenon?...Surfing legend begins with Polynesian and particularly Hawaiian prehistory, when surfing was ‘the sport of kings’ as well as commoners. Early Hawaiian surfing was on...
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The History of Money
Society, Politics & Law

The History of Money

Where did money come from? How did people trade before inventing money? Was it a masterstroke or madness (or both) to let banks create money? Today money is generally accepted as payment for goods and services or repayment of debt. But governments still fret about whether there's too much (or too little) in circulation, economists can't agree on what it is, and the...
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Evolution and the human family
Science, Maths & Technology

Evolution and the human family

...family? If so, how can it help us to understand how family structures have evolved? If not, what are the limitations of a Darwinian approach? In this album, Ruth Mace, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at UCL in London, reveals how she uses a Darwinian approach to study diverse human populations. In particular, she focuses her discussion on family size, exploring how...
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