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The Experience and Memory of 11 November 1918
History & The Arts

The Experience and Memory of 11 November 1918

...12 November 1918, p. 7. [9] Cited in Samuel Hynes, A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture (London: Pimlico, 1992), p.255. [10] Robert Graves, Good-bye to All That (London: Jonathan Cape, 1929), p. 344. [11] Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933; repr., London: Penguin, 2005), p. 463. [12] Cited in Brown, The Imperial War Museum Book of 1918, p. 285....
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What is Double Jeopardy?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Double Jeopardy?

...English law has had the double jeopardy rule for over 800 years, but it was partially abolished in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Scotland would follow in 2011). In certain, very limited circumstances a person who was acquitted of a crime can now be investigated and put on trial once more. But why was this change made? One of the key...
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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...English in the preceding three years. Katherine is currently writing up the research on dissection featured in The Italian patient and for publication as Visible Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection. She's also currently co-editing (with Lorraine Daston) volume three of The Cambridge History of Science. She's Chair of Women's Studies at Harvard...
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Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement

...English town has closer links than most to the modern Olympics...Despite the perception that it was Baron Pierre de Coubertin who revived the modern Olympic Games there were in fact many Olympic events taking place throughout Europe before Coubertin was even born. One of these, set in the small Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, has been widely considered by sports...
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Ever Wondered About... Eggs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ever Wondered About... Eggs?

...English and Greek and means “yellow”. December 3rd 1988 was Black Saturday for eggs when Edwina Currie, then Junior Health Minister, stated during an impromptu interview for ITN, that “Most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now infected with salmonella”. Next time you’re boiling eggs, try putting lemon juice or vinegar into the water. Make a hole...
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Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world
History & The Arts

Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world

...English literature and emphasised the importance of Art History’s interdisciplinarity – that is, how the subject intersects with other research areas. Chatterjee is especially interested in the shared concerns of Art History and the History of Science, which has enabled her to explore the relationship between visual cultures and the natural environment. Martin Myrone,...
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Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy
Society, Politics & Law

Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy

...English. Interest in the area has since expanded quickly: so far, 510 academic papers reference the effect in 2015, compared to just 35 in 2004. Although the effect is easy to describe, and feels intuitively “right” when looking at some examples of human-like agents such as reborn dolls or game characters, it is notoriously difficult to research such a circular and...
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Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween
History & The Arts

Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween

...English as “All Hallows Day”, and thus the eve is Halloween. It is quite plausible that there was already a seasonal festival of some sort at this date and that some of the features of this festival were transferred to Halloween. The word calan is borrowed from the Latin calends, meaning “the first day of the month”, while gaeaf means “winter”. A common claim...
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