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Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...write. What helped me? Daily journaling helped me off load during Alan’s illness. Turning my notes into a book helped me navigate my way through grief. I was also lucky enough to have bereavement support from Marie Curie counsellors and the charity Cruse. I carried on writing in my journal after Alan died, but in the form of letters to him. To help me deal with his...
Life on the wall: Vindolanda
History & The Arts

Life on the wall: Vindolanda

...writing tablets provide brilliant shafts of light on aspects of daily life than would otherwise remain entirely unknown. The names of hundreds of individuals have appeared, ranging from senior commanding officers to private soldiers, from officers’ wives to personal slaves, and from the Governor of Britain’s groom to baths orderlies, brewers, pig keepers, pharmacists...
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...write it down in this journal. Noticing this often also stops it! Reflecting on what is in the journal may help you recognise the most common self-limiting beliefs to work on. The Rubber Band Technique. This method can feel a bit self-conscious at first but is one of the quickest ways to change thinking. Wear a rubber band around your wrist: tight enough to stay on and...
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...writing” history, our own identity and ideas from our own society are brought to bear. So issues of presentation and interpretation of the evidence are crucial to our investigation of culture, identity and power in the Roman Empire. Introducing the Roman World Discussion The answer to the first of these questions is that Rome saw its role as an imperial power with a...
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...write very big or very small numbers. You'll also cover units of measurement, like kilogrammes, metres, and litres, and how they came about. This week starts with a video about bottled water consumption. It's a short, documentary-style video from the Open University, which uses numbers in a similar way to news programmes and other documentaries. I hope you'll enjoy the...
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...Writing for The Conversation, Mark Beeson weighs the corrosive effects of repeated incidents across France: France occupies a unique place in the history of Western civilisation in particular and “civilised” values more generally. There’s a lot to be said for secular states, as recent events remind us. Putting the priests and the mullahs in their place and throwing...
Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...Writing in The Times, Gavin Bell sounded a warning about what might follow from a winter of discontent in Northern Ireland: "The militant 'loyalists' of Ulster are emerging from a winter of discontent and preparing for a summer of murderous political violence." 1987 In Spain, a ban on political demonstrations attempted to keep a lid on simmering social tensions. Would it...
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...write this down on your blackbooks and journals.Hip hop culture is eternal. Run and tell all your friends. An ancient civilisation has been born again. It’s a fact.’ Whereas the most widely circulating ‘definitions’ of hip hop derive from those organic intellectuals who were produced by US-American hip hop culture (like KRS-One), global hip hop practitioners, such...