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Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’
Society, Politics & Law

Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’

...accounts, academic studies, novels, poetry, plays and film output. There are in addition countless online resources that explore the events and consider why it was such a volatile period, and why this came to characterise the Clydeside region, and in particular why was it centered on the city of Glasgow. This collection, written in mid-2019, takes the events in George...
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Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health

...account for the positive effects of 'green care'...According to the Director of the UK’s Royal Horticultural Society: Britain is suffering from a “lost generation of gardeners” in their twenties, thirties and forties because their baby-boomer parents did not bother to teach them… Gardens owned by people in this age group [are] likely either to be neglected or...
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Roadkill: What is an animal’s greatest enemy?
Society, Politics & Law

Roadkill: What is an animal’s greatest enemy?

...account for over one quarter of all our roadkill, according to research conducted by Cardiff University. My unscientific observations are supported by their research, appropriately called Project Splatter. Last year they produced a hit list of roadkill in Britain, and discovered there were not only definite patterns among species, but hot spots of where deaths happened....
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Inside the International Criminal Court
Society, Politics & Law

Inside the International Criminal Court

...account. This material forms part of the Open University course W821 Exploring the boundaries of international law... Inside the International Criminal Court:The Court The history of the ICC and how it came into being Inside the International Criminal Court :The Offices An in depth look at each of the 4 departments of the ICC: the presidency, the judicial divisions the...
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Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...accounts from Manchester are dreadful - such disturbances, as also in some other parts, near Sheffield, &c Drove out with Papa & Alexandrine, Albert & Ernest, &c, riding. We drove to the Stud & showed Papa all the horses. We also looked at the Hunters. I never felt anything like the heat On returning, found Sir Robert Peel & some of the other Ministers had come down for a...
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Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...account the number of dependents you have. Stress test your finances. This includes looking at the factors that could change the amount you spend each month and seeing if your budget can cope with the interest rate on your mortgage rising sharply (normally by assessing the impact of a 3% hike in the mortgage rate you pay). So ahead of talking to your lender there are some...
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Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...account to another one in a different country. If you want to, say, do a transfer from Kenya to Guinea, it could take weeks, even from Togo to Ghana, which border each other, because, you know, you’ve got different monetary systems, different languages. It can be very complicated. With Ecobank you can just do it instantly. And because we have a strong relationship with...
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Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...account for all the data we have now. Even later theories that took into account the compositional similarity between the Moon and Earth, such as Ted Ringwood’s 1969 binary formation model that hypothesized that the Moon formed simultaneously with Earth as a sister planet, did not fully explain for everything. With every new bit of information that is gained, plot holes...
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