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Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...class ticket and ran out to the place one day for whatever emotion awaited me there. [The site of Marston Moor] Marston Moor I At an English station you are either overwhelmed with transportation, or you are without any except such as you were born with, and at the station for Marston Moor I asked for a fly in vain. But it was a most walkable afternoon, and the pleasant...
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...class concern with organicism and George's book is very powerful on the connection of organicism and the connection with how people conceive of the soil in allotments and so on. But as also George outlines, allotments in the UK are very much part of a regularised system managed by local authorities, often at threat and sold off at times when local authorities are short of...
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...classes. The moral message was not just about the errors and vice of chattel slavery, but also about the importance of self-discipline, personal industry and engaging in what the anti-slavery abolitionists considered to be non-coercive labour – the capitalist labour market. This was in part because of growing (inaccurate) economic concerns among the ruling elite that...
Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...class, young, female and black, certainly played a large part in her lack of treatment and care within the institutions she was confined in. This treatment and attitude can be seen as indicative of those who engage with both mental health services and criminal justice services. The lack of care and understanding towards black women, particularly those who are working...
Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?

...de Condorcet and Jean-Charles de Borda. (Condorcet was friends with Thomas Jefferson, who appears to have paid little attention to Condorcet’s writings about voting.) Condorcet suggested that, if an absolute majority – more than half the voters – prefers Candidate X to Candidate Y, then Candidate Y should not be the winner. That seems very reasonable. Why not make...
Hanes anthem genedlaethol Cymru
History & The Arts

Hanes anthem genedlaethol Cymru

...De Cymru a Sir Fynwy, safodd myfyrwyr ac aelodau staff ar eu traed i ganu cân y daethpwyd i’w hadnabod wrth ei geiriau agoriadol: ‘Hen wlad fy nhadau’. Cafodd ei hysgrifennu yn 1856 gan y tad a’r mab Evan a James James o Bontypridd fel gwrogaeth ramantus i etifeddiaeth Cymru: ei beirdd, cerddorion a’i hiaith. Nodwedd hynod yw’r saib yn y canol ar gyfer y...
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...class anyway, right that class movements no longer have the power that they used to have, the trade unions no longer have the power that they used to have. Alongside that there has been some fragmentation of those social movements, which were gaining power from the late 60s. In this situation what has happened is that people have begun to recognise difference a lot more....
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...variability of equity’s character. In the opening pages of his famous course of lectures on equity delivered at the University of Cambridge at the turn of the twentieth century, he had this to say on the matter: What is Equity? We can only answer it by giving some short account of certain courts of justice which were abolished over thirty years ago. In the year 1875 we...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs