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Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context
Society, Politics & Law

Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context

...Community, Edinburgh, John Donald Tom M. Devine (2018) The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, London, Allen Lane/Penguin Peter Aitchison and Andrew Cassell (2019) The Lowland Clearances: Scotland’s Silent Revolution 1760–1830, Edinburgh, Birlinn. John Gray Centre, ‘A brief history of Emigration and Immigration in Scotland: Research Guide 2’...
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The nature of history
Education & Development

The nature of history

...communication and a whole lot else besides. History brings enormous benefits at all levels – personal, local, national and international. The first thing that any doctor asks when he or she sees a new patient is for their medical record. Family history, helped enormously by new technology, is a boom activity and I know some very sane people who have become totally...
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Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
OpenLearn Ireland

Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network

...communities...[The Royal Barracks, now Collins Barracks, in Dublin was one of the first purpose-built army barracks constructed in Europe.] Figure 1 The Royal Barracks, now Collins Barracks, in Dublin was one of the first purpose-built army barracks constructed in Europe. Collins Barracks, Dublin (2023). OSBHM project photograph. The history of army barracks in Ireland...
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Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen

...community coming together to celebrate. Another of my heroes is Fatima Whitbread who became World champion in 1987. Although boasting a great career, Whitbread never managed an Olympic gold but won a silver (1988) and a bronze (1984). However, it is Whitbread’s story that makes her, in my mind, a true inspiration. Whitbread was abandoned as a baby, spending her...
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Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
Society, Politics & Law

Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate

...community Pikpa Camp is entirely different. It offers shelter to around 80 of the most vulnerable refugees (about 20 of them children) with medical issues. Run entirely by volunteers, it depends on donations. It is an open camp, and people can come and go as they please – but some people never go out. One group of women are too afraid to ever leave their tent. Pikpa...
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What missing lander means for Europe’s quest to find life on Mars
Society, Politics & Law

What missing lander means for Europe’s quest to find life on Mars

...communicative, and no unambiguous landing signal was received. Loss of the lander is disappointing, because it was a precursor to the system that will be deployed in four years to land a rover designed to search for life below the planet’s surface. The Trace Gas Orbiter had to make a crucial manoeuvre to bring it into orbit under Mars’ gravitational influence, a time...
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What do scientists really do? My experience interviewing researchers
Science, Maths & Technology

What do scientists really do? My experience interviewing researchers

...communal feeling overlooking the science world. The scientists at AstrobiologyOU and the School of Physical Sciences at The Open University told us about what they research and do at the university. They also shared what a typical day looks like for them. Transcript This first video demonstrates the wide range of careers that all come together to form AstrobiologyOU and,...
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Derry Air: the new local history
Society, Politics & Law

Derry Air: the new local history

...community-created murals that now replace the old pictorial incitements to hatred and murders; the moving statues signalling reconciliation and hands reaching out across the divisions. The old divisions may still be there but now accepted, even a source of wisdom, but no longer the font of attack. The nostalgia of the (shared) ‘Londonderry air’ still hangs – and...
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