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Katrina Gulliver, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich The following is an extract from Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity between the War, which was published by IB Taurus in February 2012 Stella Benson was born in … Continue reading
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Gareth Millward, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine When the Disability Discrimination Act received Royal Assent on 8 November 1995, the United Kingdom finally had the anti-discrimination legislation which had been recommended by a government commission in 1981. But … Continue reading
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Georgina Brewis, Institute of Education, University of London Today is the first day of Student Volunteering Week 2012, an annual event marking the contribution that higher and further education students make to the wider community through volunteering, fundraising and campaigning … Continue reading
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Pat Starkey, University of Liverpool Who exactly were the ‘troubled’ families that David Cameron had in mind when he was speaking at Sandwell Christian Centre on 14 December? His slightly self-conscious use of the adjective ‘troubled’ may have been chosen … Continue reading
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Robert Howes, King’s College London Voluntary action amongst openly LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) people began in the 1960s. Prior to 1967, male homosexuality in the UK was illegal both in public and in private. Any man who formally … Continue reading
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Graham Smith, Royal Holloway At the beginning of this year (2012) a small group of oral historians kicked off OccupyOralHistory. We were inspired to do so by the broad movement that is occupying spaces that include not just the streets, former … Continue reading
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Kirsten Jarrett Classic Text: In Darkest London by Ada Chesterton (1926) Anne Turner was the pseudonym used by Ada Elizabeth Chesterton, the widow of G.K. Chesterston’s brother Cecil, herself a journalist and ‘social reformer’. It was under this name that, … Continue reading
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Leo Enticknap, University of Leeds In his Philosophy of Audiovisual Archiving, the only full-length work to have been written dealing specifically with the ethics of moving image archiving, Ray Edmondson defines the ‘ultimate ethical issue for the audiovisual archivist’ as ‘discouraging … Continue reading
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George Campbell Gosling, Oxford Brookes University, UK and Melanie Oppenheimer, University of New England, Australia In 1989 Francis Fukuyama declared the ‘end of history’ was underway. The fall of the Berlin Wall had marked the end of the fundamental clash … Continue reading
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Colin Rochester and Meta Zimmeck, Practical Wisdom R2Z For many parts of the voluntary sector 2011 was a year of brutal clarity, as the Coalition Government’s spending cuts and restructuring of public services began to bite. It was also a … Continue reading
