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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...c.1550-1616) was eventually forced into exile by English crown forces; but the ballad evokes a romantic past in which O’Neill yet rules over Tyrone ‘in high state, with his fair English bride’. The language of the poem is given a ‘Celtic’ flavour by the use of the Scots Gaelic ‘sheiling’ and the Irish words ‘sugaun’ and ‘bawn’. The dialogue suggests...
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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...c. 1770?–1955). [Pandit Malaviya] Photographs of Pandit Malaviya before and after his kutipravesika as appeared in The Illustrated Weekly of India and were syndicated worldwide (Lal 1938). [Kuti] A contemporary photograph of the kuti later built by Tapsi Baba. Listen to an audio recording below, in which Religious Studies scholar Suzanne Newcombe and philosopher Carolyn...
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Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music

...C. (2004) Stagolee Shot Billy. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press. Cox, J.H. (1919) ‘John Hardy’, The Journal of American Folklore, 32(126), pp. 505–520. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/535190?origin=crossref (Accessed: 15 April 2024). Fisher, J. (1998) The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. Hobsbawm, E. (1981)...
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Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...C. V. Stanford's Five Songs from the Sea (1904) to words by Sir Henry Newbolt (for example the songs Drakes Drum and The Old Superb) conjure up a nostalgic picture of a great age of English seafaring triumph using appropriately strong, forthright and rumbustious melodies. In contrast, John Ireland's setting of John Masefield's Sea Fever (1913) is an elegiac celebration of...
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The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...C. (2012) ‘Media coverage and public understanding of sentencing policy in relation to crimes against children’, Criminology & Criminal Justice, 12(5) pp. 567–591. DOI: 10.1177/1748895811432956 Cooper, V., Payler, J., Bennett, S. J. & Taylor, L. (2023) ‘From arrest to release, helping families feel less alone: An evaluation of a Worcestershire pilot support...
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One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?
Education & Development

One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?

...C., Neff, D. and Gonzalez, N. (1992) ‘Funds of knowledge for teaching: using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms’. Theory into Practice, 31(2), pp. 132–41. Rogoff, B. (1995) ‘Observing sociocultural activity on three planes: participatory appropriation, guided participation, and apprenticeship’, in J.V. Wertsch, P. del Río, and A. Alvarez...
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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...Additional resources Equalities and Human Rights Commission, publications on Equality Law and Education Joseph Rowntree Foundation research on ethnicity Runnymede Trust Steele, C. (2010) Whistling Vivaldi: how stereotypes affect us and what we can do. New York: W.W. Norton. Tomlinson, S. (2019) Education and Race from Empire to Brexit. Bristol: Policy Press....
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Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...C. (2020) 'British Criminological Amnesia: Making the Case for a Black and Postcolonial Feminist Criminology', Decolonization of Criminology and Justice, 2(1), pp. 37–58. Crenshaw, K. (1989) 'Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics', University of Chicago Legal...
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