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Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...History Month, we've complied a list and short biography of five black trailblazers from across Europe. ...1: Peter Bossman [Peter Bossman portrait] Peter Bossman is mayor of the Slovene town of Piran. A small town on Slovenia's Adriatic Coast, Piran's choice of Bossman for mayor is noteworthy as he's not just the first black mayor of Piran, or of any place in Slovenia....
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The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...family life. Fifty years after his discovery of mauve, he was knighted for his contribution to the British chemical industry. His achievement was not just the discovery of the dye but its development and exploitation. Perkin showed that: Chemical research can give rise to useful and valuable materials. It’s possible to produce specialised chemicals on a large scale in...
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Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...history of comings and goings. The Boundary Street Estate, with Arnold Circus at its centre, was a ‘model development’ providing all that the residents would need. It was at the heart of London County Council’s Boundary Estate, one of the first attempts by a local authority to create social housing. Some of its first tenants were Jews escaping pogroms in Europe. In...
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Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...families to understand what it means to be neurodivergent and how this can influence participation and athletic development. You will apply theory to practice in a range of sport and exercise settings to begin to consider how you can shape your own coaching practice to support athletes with a neurodiverse condition. Although the audience is specifically those working or...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...History Unit Tim Scoones discusses his inspirations, Springwatch, citizen science, archive and new media. ...Tim Scoones Tim Scoones is an executive producer at the BBC Natural History Unit, currently specializing in live broadcasting with programs such as Springwatch and 24/7 Wild and also in pop-science, which includes Nature’s Weirdest Events and Natural Born...
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Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...family member and organisational partner define participative practice and its significance for leadership work in the voluntary sector describe some of the main aspects of your own identity and practices you value reflect on the kinds of practices that seem to define the organisations you work on behalf of...Week 2: Identity and participative practice in collaborative...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...history and experiences of people racialised as non-white and, for many others, it will be an affirmation of being in the rightful place in our diverse twenty-first century. Whatever your background, the course will give you the opportunity to hear from contributors from a range of backgrounds, lived experiences, thoughts and voices, which are designed to help inform,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...history, and he would have all to do for himself: his powers would be expended in the first preparations. Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind. Shakespeare's youth fell in a time when the English...
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