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Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...law. The legal case R. v. Board of Trustees of the Science Museum (Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, Times Law Report, 9 March 1993) was an appeal against a conviction in 1990 under Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974. The prosecution case was that the defendants had failed to maintain their air conditioning system to a sufficient standard and...
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Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...laws governing how ice sliding depends on the bed (such as how slippery it is), different maps of the bedrock topography, and different dates of the triggering of instability by warm ocean water or ice shelf collapse. This approach of using a whole ‘ensemble’ of simulations is very common in climate science and other areas of science that use computer models. The...
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Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...laws and reprisals will not prevent this information from leaking out. As a result, Washington faces what can be described as an accelerating hypocrisy collapse -- a dramatic narrowing of the country's room to maneuver between its stated aspirations and its sometimes sordid pursuit of self-interest. The U.S. government, its friends, and its foes can no longer plausibly...
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The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...law, penal reformer Thomas Fowell Buxton, which was published in 1818 and subsequently used by other campaigners and later hagiographers. Buxton describes the terrible scenes of poverty and debauchery that Elizabeth encountered; women, scantily dressed, begging at the gratings, playing at cards, swearing, drunk and violent. Overcome with sadness, Elizabeth pulled out her...
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Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change

...law and only allowed to grow certain varieties of grape and those have been determined to be the most suitable for that area. They’re part of the character. If you get a Burgundy, a red Burgundy from France, it’s going to be Pinot Noir, and that is part of the character of that wine. So there are ways to adapt in the vineyard, to provide more shade or cooling through...
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‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982
Society, Politics & Law

‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

...Law Journal, (11:1), 1982. For reading on occupations in British History broadly: Clark A. (ed) ‘Workplace occupations in British labour history: Rise, fall, and historical legacies’. Labour History Review 2021, 86(1). (This special issue of Labour History Review focuses on the history of workplace occupations in Britain, with five articles) Coates, K. Work-ins,...
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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...Law Review, 62, pp. 1–80. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3391331 Chinazzi, A. (2023) ‘A social contract for home education: a framework for the homeschooling debate’, Encyclopaideia, 27(65), pp. 35–48. Available at: https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/15312 Dwyer, J.G. and Peters, S.F. (2019) Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a...
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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...law, the Reverend Henry Bromley, who died in February 1878, noted that ‘he had married Miss Joanna Vassa, a daughter of the then well-known, and still remembered, Gustavus Vassa, the African’ (Lovejoy, 2006, p. 340). Equiano’s first visit to Cambridgeshire remains unknown, however, there is archival evidence from Magadelene College, Cambridge University that Equiano...
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