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Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...physically recreated in the panorama’s rotunda, to form the viewing platform, as is the case in the 1829 Colosseum Panorama of London from St Paul’s Cathedral. The structure of the model of the cathedral tower is evident in a contemporary engraving by Rudolph Ackermann. [Detail from Bird’s Eye View from the Staircase & the Upper Part of the Pavilion in the...
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...physical restraint by a police officer in Minneapolis, USA, and the revival of Black Lives Matter on a global level, has placed renewed emphasis on calls for defunding the state police and greater acknowledgement of the brutal British colonial past. These calls, alongside those for further recognition of the manner in which British wealth is in large part historically...
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...physical disabilities difficulties in filling out forms and coping with bureaucracy lack of continuity of care, for example as people move between accommodation or are ‘dispersed’ poverty and its impact on the individual being able to afford travel to access services, go to meetings and hearings etc. the use of detention for people with insecure immigration status,...
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...physical space and physical spaces were just places people didn't go during the pandemic. So we needed to make sure that we were still offering the businesses based here access because they needed to get important pieces of post, that kind of stuff. But we also needed to make sure that the community and everything people were getting that wasn't physical space from this...
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...physical, psychological, spiritual and social pain”. The idea of palliative care being holistic can be traced back to Cicely Saunders, the British nurse and doctor who established the first hospice in the UK in the 1960s. She came up with the concept of ‘total pain’, arguing that it was as important to address the mental, emotional, spiritual and social aspects of...
Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...physically with us here at Brent Cross, but also online. Our mission is to help people to pursue an intimate relationship with God, to discover their purpose in him, thereby maximizing our potential and consequently, impacting the lives of people in our community. The building itself is an old office building, but we have made much investment and adaption to make it...
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...physical transformation of Paris in the middle and late nineteenth century – one of the most researched cities in social theory, and one of the most researched periods of that city’s history. Harvey’s analysis of creative destruction also draws heavily on his experience of living and working in the much more ordinary city of Baltimore: a declining, chronically...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...physical symptoms, for example, in aches and pains that won’t go away and feeling generally unwell, when the real underlying problem is depression. Pauline: I think with each time that I’ve suffered from depression, it’s the isolation and emotionally I was very detached. I would come in and sit by my bed and cry. And when it got so bad that I didn’t want to speak...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs