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St Lucia reimagined: marketing a Swedish festive icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

St Lucia reimagined: marketing a Swedish festive icon

...Families also observe the day by having one of their daughters (traditionally the eldest) dress as Lucia and serve breakfast in bed to the rest of the family. [A typical Luciatåg (candlelit procession), at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London, 14 December 2016.]A typical Luciatåg (candlelit procession) The origins of St Lucia’s Day St Lucia’s Day is rooted in...
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The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times
Society, Politics & Law

The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times

...family. Since 2003, in a decade and a half, Weetabix has gone from US and then British ownership to Chinese and Asian control. For the current owners, however, things have not turned out quite as anticipated. The initial attraction of Weetabix for the Bright Food Group was that it represented a potential vehicle for transforming Chinese breakfast habits. Breakfast cereals...
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Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media
Society, Politics & Law

Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media

...family TV programmes such as prime-time sitcoms and reality shows, on billboards and bus shelters, or around sports fields where children and families watch their teams play. Governments could protect children much more effectively – if they were brave, and if the food industry, advertisers and social media platforms complied. In 2010 Ofcom (the UK’s communications...
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What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?
History & The Arts

What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?

...family in the run up to World War II remain closed. Naturally, such censorship has led to endless conspiracy theories. But over the past eight years I have accumulated damning evidence by sifting through 30 archives all over the world that are open. Intelligence reports and German, Spanish and Russian documents show members of the British royal family were indeed far...
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How did Aretha Franklin inspire the civil rights movement?
History & The Arts

How did Aretha Franklin inspire the civil rights movement?

...familial and spiritual as well as musical – her father was actively involved with Democratic party politics and the civil rights movement. Politicians and activists – along with many of the gospel superstars of the day – were a fixture in the family home. As a result, Franklin received formative musical mentoring from stars such as Dinah Washington and Mahalia...
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History and hope: Education for girls in South Sudan
Education & Development

History and hope: Education for girls in South Sudan

...family, the risks of daily travelling to school in a country where peace is not fully settled, and the risks of early or forced marriage. As the school is a community school its key focus is education without elitism. Celebrating our sisters at Ibba Girls School In this article and in the presentation, we celebrate three pioneers – an influential teacher, as well as the...
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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...family of Portugese-Indian ancestry in a suburb of Bombay. She arrived in Britain with her husband and son towards around 1960. Finding her new acquaintances eager to learn yoga, she quickly adopted the persona of Yogini Sunita and began teaching what she learned from yogi Narainswami on the beaches near Bombay, which she called Pranayama Yoga. Yogini Sunita training a...
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The gift of being a foster carer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The gift of being a foster carer

...families, communities, and society in general. Every one of us is part of a local, national, and global community. Sometimes we do not always appreciate the happenings in these communities, especially your local community on your own doorstep. Foster carers are needed every day, and as a country we are experiencing an ongoing crisis in being able to provide the needed...
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