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‘Women weren't supposed to have a job, so they set up salons in their front rooms’: Historian charts Dublin’s changing hairdressing scene
Not allowed to work in commercial hairdressers, Dublin women set up shop in their own front rooms. "They’d have the equipment, the hood dryers, the chairs, the sink,” says Dublin City Council ...
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Chattanooga Knows: What early 20th century celebrity appeared here exactly 100 years ago?
Q. What early 20th century celebrity appeared at the Memorial Auditorium exactly 100 years ago? A. Homer Rodeheaver appeared in concert at the Memorial Auditorium on Feb. 10, 1925. Box seats were $1.
Scottish colourists exhibition: the painters who stood shoulder to shoulder with Matisse and Cezanne
In the early years of the 20th century, four painters left behind a drab grey Presbyterian Scotland for the exciting ...
The Locale That Inspired Designer Claire McCardell And Other Artists
But Claire McCardell was a pioneering outlier. From the 1930s to the 1950s this designer found freedom creating affordable, ...
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Notre Dame Ranked 5th In PFF Way-Too-Early Top 25 For 2025
Expectations are even higher in year four as the Irish are expected to once against be a title contender. The Way-Too-Early Top 25 lists are continuing to roll out and Pro Football Focus is the ...
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The Making of Modern Britain
By Diane Abbott. Thatcherism and the End of the Post-War Consensus by Dennis Kavanagh 20th Century Britain: The Woman's Hour by Jenni Murray ...
Irish Sun4d
3,600 Irish will get breast cancer each year – it’s vital to check for signs as early detection helps with treatment
One in seven women will develop the disease in their lifetime. And early detection significantly increases the chances of treating the cancer effectively. Because of this, people are being urged ...
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The Indo Daily: A family’s plea for justice half a century after the emergence of Ireland’s first serial killers
Almost 50 years ago, a young woman named Elizabeth Plunkett, from Ringsend in Dublin, was socialising with her boyfriend and a group of friends in a pub in Brittas Bay. There was a minor ...
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A history of the pharmaceutical industry
An advert for Bayer's Aspirin from the early 20th century Bayer had the aspirin trademark and its US assets seized during World War One, whilst “American” Merck (now Merck & Co. in the US or ...
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The Learning Network
We invite students to explain how to do any task in 400 words or fewer. Contest dates: Feb. 12 to March 12, 2025. By The Learning Network Big feelings can shape much of our life, and the lives ...
Boston College5d
Taking another view of the Irish Civil War
For Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Eunan O’Halpin, his fondness for reading print newspapers mirrors his approach to scholarly work, delving into bureaucratic archives of diplomatic, ...
University of Oslo3d
ENG2302 – Early 20th Century Literature in English
The novels, short stories, and poetry of the early 20th century critiqued existing forms of identity, suggested new alternative forms, and provided readers with a space in which to reflect on the ways ...