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Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update

...account for two-thirds of all WSL revenue. Such a disparity does not so much raise questions about the financial sustainability of the WSL but the competitive balance of the league. Furthermore, the Deloitte review also noted the financial challenge of supporting the aspiration of two professional leagues as well as the difficulty of properly assessing the income and...
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Article 5 mins
Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes

...accounts of British history, as discussed in a 2016 BBC series ‘Black and British: A Forgotten History’ currently being repeated on the iPlayer platform. Slowly, we are (re)discovering Black British sporting figures and their fascinating stories. Increasingly we see profiles emerge of these forgotten sporting icons in the media, often as content created to mark Black...
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Article 10 mins
The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...accounts of the Jewish Holocaust. These are dark-skinned people, not Europeans like you and me their contemporary existence is absolutely dysfunctional These statements aren’t from the historical archives. They were made by Italian and Hungarian politicians, respectively, in 2010. A European Union survey, in 2019, found the Roma are increasingly threatened by the far...
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A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...account of Southampton, docks have a fancy of taking themselves in, and eluding the tourist eye, and even when they "flank the Mersey for a distance of 6-7 M." they do not respond to American curiosity so frankly as could be wished. They are like other English things in that, however, and it must be said for them that when apparent they are sometimes unimpressive. From my...
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Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...account of St Patrick planting the yew tree which gave the city its name, as he travelled through the region in the fifth century. In the sixth century it was noted that Newry was included in every tour that over-kings made of their territory. However, it was in the Norman period that Newry took on its identity as ‘the frontier town’, an identity which would see it at...
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Article 15 mins
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...accounted for 27 per cent of the overall prison population including foreign nationals (83,454) compared to 25 per cent of the overall prison population (76,190) in 2005. (Source: Ministry of Justice, 2010)...Race, ethnicity and crime: Case study: Racial disproportion in the US - Deborah Peterson Small is Executive Director of Break the Chains, a small non-profit advocacy...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...account of her journey to England and her support for refugees and asylum seekers...Early years [Julie Asumu portrait] My name is Julie Asumu (Aunty July to those who know me well). I was born in a rural village in Nigeria where I spent my formative years. Some of my fondest memories from my childhood was when my father would gather us together and regale stories of his...
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Article 15 mins
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...account and put on her profile where she lived, the settings and her phone number and she also put her address on. She also, within that device, her location settings were set on so you know that means that some people outside can find you. She started posting her pictures, her modelling pictures, her selfies and she made herself up with all her makeup. Some of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs