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Diary of a new Life Peer
Society, Politics & Law

Diary of a new Life Peer

...style and title of BARONESS SMITH OF LLANFAES, of Llanfaes in the County of Ynys Môn.’ 21 March 2024 Joined by my family and friends, who sat in the public gallery above the Chamber, I was introduced formally to the House of Lords through the traditional introduction ceremony. The ceremony involves one of the clerks reading out my Letters Patent, me making the...
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‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...non-White Americans to African Americans via this more subtle expression of prejudice. Sue et al. (2007) later refined the definition and recognised the microaggression as a way of behaving that went beyond race. Sue described microaggression as: ‘the everyday slights, indignities, put downs and insults that people of colour, women, LGBT populations or those who are marginalized experience in their day-to-day interactions ......
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Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...styles of diagrams from an early age, e.g. reading the time from a watch face. However the types and uses of diagrams are often rooted in different cultural, social or academic settings. Thus a modern map looks quite different to an eighteenth century map while digital watches have replaced analogue ones for many people...Systems diagramming: 2.1 Diagrams as models -...
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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...profile and can occur on significant slopes. They support a wide invertebrate fauna and are considered a significant carbon sink. Peat is at risk from a number of sources. Machine cutting of peat for horticulture and for power station fuel, drainage, afforestation and intensive grazing have considerable impacts on the extent and integrity of blanket bogs. Nutrient...
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...profile tests and targets, school-wide competitions about reading at home, and awards for those children who read higher numbers of books. In such schools limited talk and creative interaction around texts is likely to be heard, constraining personal responses to reading. In the Teachers as Readers project, teachers’ talk about self-chosen children’s books was...
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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

...profile technologies of cotton and steam, than on the earlier occupational shift of the population towards manufactures and commerce. In addition, a culture that made frequent use of national terminology blurred the lines between local and national economic experiences. The rise of economic liberal politics encouraged people to link industrial advance with free markets,...
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The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective

...profiling and preferences of outings for carers of individuals living with dementia: Systematic Review Protocol. Prospero - International Prospective Register of Systematic reviews CRD42020193532 https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=193532 Borgstrom E, Gopinath M and Vseteckova J (2018) Learning in the Fourth Age: the role of physical activity...
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Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...profiling was happening in housing allocation. Borders were created around us, which caused problems of rivalry between different groups. Suddenly, there was a Caribbean community, a Somali community, a Yemeni community, instead of a collective Butetown identity. Something like Carnival – music, food, dance, colour, costumes, family – that’s bound to bring community...
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