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The Oldest Generation
Society, Politics & Law

The Oldest Generation

...document their day to day routines, with the aim of showing how major events affect the lives of the older generation... The Oldest Generation project Using diary excerpts, this audio track documents the lives of older people, how and why certain family relationships endure or change over time, and how these processes affect the lives of members of the oldest generation....
Exploring youth violence: what would you do?
Education & Development

Exploring youth violence: what would you do?

...families, homelessness, and limited access to education and welfare services. To understand some of the problems these young people can face today, step into the shoes of Tyler and Rafi and live a day of their life in our ‘What would you do’ interactive. Please note, that this interactive contains depictions of racism, which you may find upsetting. [What would you do...
The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...family, and spent most of her formative years at the seventeenth-century mansion, Earlham Hall, in Norfolk. Although raised as a Quaker in ‘name only’, in 1798 a young Elizabeth decided to fully embrace the Quaker faith and traditions. Just two years later, she married tea merchant Joseph Fry, and the couple moved to London. In the intervals between child-bearing,...
International Jazz Day
Miscellaneous

International Jazz Day

...History. Back then, posters proclaimed the slogan ‘Jazz. Made in America. Enjoyed Worldwide.’. In 2005, this was altered to become ‘Jazz. Born in America. Enjoyed Worldwide.’, a subtle shift in emphasis, perhaps in recognition of the way in which jazz is being ‘made’ in different ways across the globe, not just in its ‘birthplace’. Since 2011, Jazz...
TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem
Nature & Environment

TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem

...histories, seemed particularly painful. Our response has been to initiate a series of projects to engage UK audiences with Indigenous worldviews, either through participation in Indigenous music projects, walks at sites of Indigenous significance, or encounters with Indigenous artworks. The most important of these is TOTEM LATAMAT, carved by Totonac artist Jun Tiburcio...
The legacy of the Victorian prison treadmill
History & The Arts

The legacy of the Victorian prison treadmill

...history of the penal treadmill and asks what lessons we can learn for prisons today...In this video, Professor Rosalind Crone visits Beaumaris Goal in Anglesey, north Wales, the site of one of the only remaining penal treadmills in Britain. The penal treadmill was not something you’d find in a gym like its modern namesake, it was a machine used to punish prisoners and...
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...family maidservant when she went to the privy; he bored a few holes in the wall so he “could plainly see” the parts discussed in the book. [A hairy child from an 1831 edition of Aristotle's Masterpiece] A hairy child from the 1831 edition of the Masterpiece The book that Cannon read so eagerly was neither by Aristotle nor usually considered a masterpiece. It is,...
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...history of Western civilisation in particular and “civilised” values more generally. There’s a lot to be said for secular states, as recent events remind us. Putting the priests and the mullahs in their place and throwing off the yoke of inherited ideology and ignorance has been one of the West’s great achievements. It is not too fanciful to suggest that much of...