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Where care is in the age of sexual equality

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Over the past 60 years family life has changed dramatically with greater choice and autonomy, especially for women and a more equal domestic sphere have brought great gains for human freedom. David Goodhart, argues there have been losses and unintended consequences too – in family instability, children’s declining mental health, and ever-rising demands on the welfare state and social care system. Sharp falling birth rates also present major challenges. Especially in the bottom half of the income spectrum, the costs are now too high. The Care Dilemma argues that we need a new policy settlement that supports gender equality while … Continue reading Where care is in the age of sexual equality

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Chinese transformation

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Want to know how an impoverished and terrorised China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s  and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. When Mao Zedong died in spring 1977, the new culture commissar busied himself publishing the fifth volume of the late Chairman’s selected writings. The paper that had been waiting in storage for this moment had gone mouldy, there was not enough electricity to run the printing presses, the typographers work at a snail’s pace, terrified that any misprints would result in death. The episode ois … Continue reading Chinese transformation

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Indian Titan Ratan Naval Tata died aged 86

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Indian Tycoon Ratan Tata has died aged 86, at Mumbai hospital. He led the conglomerate Tata Group, for more than two decades. Tata one of India’s most internationally recognised business leaders with annual revenues in excess of $100bn ( £76.5 bn). Current chairman of Tata Sons Natarajan Chandrasekaran  added “ On behalf of the entire Tata family, I extend out deepest condolences to his loved ones. His legacy will continue to inspire us as we strive to uphold the principles he so passionately championed”. During his tenure as Chairman of Tata Group, the conglomerate made several high-profile acquisitions, including the … Continue reading Indian Titan Ratan Naval Tata died aged 86

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Human tragedy of slavery & Slaveship’s fight for Emancipation

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The Predator of the Seas is the dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter – which brings new insights into Britain’s involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people. HMS Black Joe, ex-slaver turned scourge of the transatlantic trade, is the story of the slave ship sent on a moral crusade. The Brazilian slave ship Henriqueta had no cause for alarm when it spotted the British frigate Sybille early on September 6, 1827, just off the West coast of Africa. Sybille was a sluggish 44-gun warship nearing the end of her lifespan, while Henriqueta was a sleek Baltimore … Continue reading Human tragedy of slavery & Slaveship’s fight for Emancipation

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BERYL COOK: A PRIVATE VIEW Finborough Theatre Earls Court.

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Fresh from The Edinburgh Festival – BERYL COOK: A PRIVATE VIEW Finborough Theatre Earls Court. http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk– “Probably the most influential fringe theatre in the world” (Time Out). 1 Oct to 26 Oct. Please see times and prices on the website.WHEN ART AND ACTING MEET AND SHAKE HANDS Written performed and painted by KARA WILSON Wife of renowned actor Tom Conti and writer and performer in several plays, Kara Wilson does a show involving painting a Beryl Cook piece of artwork which can be bought at a later date by admirers. The title of the artwork done live on stage is … Continue reading BERYL COOK: A PRIVATE VIEW Finborough Theatre Earls Court.

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Concept of leisure fraught with class tension

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The Bookshop is a history of British Institution in crisis with rich historical vignettes and surprising wares.As spaces where local life and culture unfolds, our high streets can be playgrounds of personal indulgence and community spirit or sites of contentious debate and politicking. Peeping through the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers, we explore everything from the toyshops of yesteryears where curiosities were sold for adults not children to the birth of brands we shop at today. Three-Hundred- years of shopping which takes in sex, snobbery, and moral panics. Josiah Wedgwood has a vision for china, and even better to … Continue reading Concept of leisure fraught with class tension

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Concept of leisure fraught with class tension

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The Bookshop is a history of British Institution in crisis with rich historical vignettes and surprising wares.As spaces where local life and culture unfolds, our high streets can be playgrounds of personal indulgence and community spirit or sites of contentious debate and politicking. Peeping through the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers, we explore everything from the toyshops of yesteryears where curiosities were sold for adults not children to the birth of brands we shop at today. Three-Hundred- years of shopping which takes in sex, snobbery, and moral panics. Josiah Wedgwood has a vision for china, and even better to … Continue reading Concept of leisure fraught with class tension

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Toxic masculinity

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For decades, the Kennedy name has been synonymous with wealth, power, and above all else – integrity. But this carefully c constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the Kennedy men’s legacy of physical and psychological abuse of women, part of a tradition of toxic masculinity that spans generations and has ruined untold lives.  Through scandal after scandal, the family and their defenders have managed to keep this shameful story out of spotlight. Long before the Lewinsky affair, JFK had multiple sexual encounters with White House interns, he even slept with one Mimi Alford, in his wife’s powder-blue bedroom. It’s no … Continue reading Toxic masculinity

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Forget Google Maps imaging mapping of Seven Seas

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Victory that was owed to the cumbersomely named Hydrographical Office, the Royal Navy Department responsible for its charts, detailed maps of seas and coasts, with tidal ranges, water depths and other essential relevant details, after the battle of Copenhagen, in 1801, confronted by a formidable fixed line of Danish ships supported from the land, Admiral Horatio Nelson had to make a bold decision . Should he risk taking his ships into the narrow, shallow channel where the enemy lay, so that Nelson’s three ships ran aground before the battle had properly begun?  Admiral Parker, the commander of the British fleet, … Continue reading Forget Google Maps imaging mapping of Seven Seas

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Campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace, anti-slavery, human rights

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Social historian Jane Robinson’s Biography of Barbara Leigh Bodichon, a victorian feminist we should all be grateful to, is as entertaining as it is necessary, in histories of the women’s movement,  and from the walls of Girton College, Cambridge, where she looks out, somewhat glossy-eyed. Bodichon was both one of the finest Victorian England’s finest female painters, exhibiting at London’s Royal Academy and formidable campaigner for women’s rights, and her achievements stayed under the radar, as she defied easy categorisation. Her pamphlet “A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Laws Concerning Women” was the beginning of a long effort … Continue reading Campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace, anti-slavery, human rights