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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...code, or confession of faith of this system”, linking the starting-point with the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, something that might have surprised Smith himself! The post-war years By now, there were anxieties that the success of Britain’s manufactures might have been an artificial result of wartime circumstances; and when peace in 1815 was followed...
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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'

...coded by Charles Booth in his 1898 survey as pink: ‘Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings’. Its inhabitants were ‘usually paid for responsibility and are men of good character and much intelligence’. Newly-built, Arnold Circus replaced the notorious slums of the Old Nichol. Booth noted five-storey flats with shops underneath and two schools. One is still a...
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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...Code of Rites. Paris: Pantanos Classics. Osuloga, D. (2021) Black and British: A Forgotten History. London: Pan Publishing. Rahn, O. (2006) Crusade Against the Grail: The Struggle between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome. Vermouth: Inner Traditions Publishers. Runican, S (1987) A History of the Crusade. London: Penguin Publishers. Simmons, A. (2017)...
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Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...codes, is one strategy that can help to address limitations. In fact, when we are interested in EDI in research, we are also interested in the identities of the actual researchers and the protocols they follow. This involves being vigilant of biases by discussing them explicitly and suggesting how they may be mitigated. Mitigation may happen in several ways: involving key...
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Diary of a new Life Peer
Society, Politics & Law

Diary of a new Life Peer

...code of conduct. 25 March 2024 My first full sitting day as a member of the House of Lords began with Oral Questions. This was followed by attending the committee stage (day 8) of the Victims and Prisoners Bill. I also attended a Grand Committee Session on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. 25 April 2024 I gave my maiden speech during a debate on the topic...
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The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...code for the Scottish Fisheries Museum] Angus Macleod Archive (2022) index.php (angusmacleodarchive.org.uk) Angusmacleodarchive.org.uk (Accessed 12/12/22). Davis, S. (2010) ‘A whirling vortex of women’: The Strikes of Scots Herring Women in East Anglia in the 1930s and 1940s. Labour History Review, Vol. 75 No. 2, August, 2010, pp 181–207. Historic Environment...
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Why is FGM practised?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is FGM practised?

...codes and are breaking the law. The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2025) vigorously calls for an end to medicalised FGM as it perpetuates and risks normalising an illegal, unsafe, violent and harmful practice and grossly undermines eradication efforts. FGM can never be condoned; no matter if undertaken by a lay cutter or by a healthcare practitioner. For further reading...
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Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...code associated with a particular profession, or to the slaughter of animals for food in a certain manner), it is held that a form of injustice important to group members would occur. The hard cases arise when the claims of the group (for example, to educate its children in a particular language) conflict with the freely chosen claims of some of its individual members....
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs