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A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime

...business, that Ophelia should be turned into Columbine was to be expected; but I confess I was a little shocked when Hamlet's mother became Pantaloon, and was instantly knocked down by Clown Claudius. Grimaldi is getting a little old now, but for real humor there are few clowns like him. Mr. Shuter, as the grave-digger, was chaste and comic, as he always is, and the...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...business, politics and organised crime, and racism. Writers such as Fruttero and Lucentini (Italy), Didier Daeninckx (France) and Jakob Arjouni (Germany) opened a path that many others would follow. In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, leading to the reunification of Germany and the collapse of the former Soviet bloc. Capitalism seemed to have triumphed, contrary to the...
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Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...adherence of such improvements. This is a key consideration as many organisations push forward in enacting management upgrading projects around the world. This blog post is based on the author’s paper All in the family? CEO choice and firm organization, co-authored with Renata Lemos and was originally posted at the LSE Business Review under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence...
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Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...business after oil and sex and although there is no longer a British Empire, sport is one of the two main legacies of colonialism along with the English language. (Mike Cronin in The State of Play, 2012) Even if you have no interest in it, it is difficult to ignore football (especially during global events such as the World Cup) because of its massive media coverage and...
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Time management and study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time management and study

...busy and there is lots to juggle. The Open University Time Planner can help you work out exactly how you can fit studying around other commitments. Using a planner helps you schedule each event, appointment and task so you don't run out of time. You can use it to set deadlines to help you stay on track and plan in extra time for yourself and spending time with your loved...
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In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...business throve it seemed to be at the cost of somebody; though even when business pines it is apparently no better. The thing ought to be looked into. At the moment of my visit to Sheffield, it happened that many works were running half-time or no time, and many people were out of work. At one place there was a little oblong building between branching streets, round...
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Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...busy thinking about commands, angles, distances and other details, I have a moment to collect my thoughts for writing my report. Part of my role is to document the discussions we had earlier and preserve for the future why we are investigating the targets that we have selected. Thus, I spend the next ten minutes thinking back to the discussions we had, and making notes of...
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Article 15 mins
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...Business Review, 94(7–8), pp. 52–60. Good, L. and Cooper, R. (2016) ‘“But it’s your job to be friendly”: employees coping with and contesting sexual harassment from customers in the service sector’, Gender, Work and Organization 23(5), pp. 447–69. Jack, G., Riach, K. and Bariola, E. (2019) ‘Temporality and gendered agency: menopausal subjectivities in...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs