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Warp and Weft is a progressive folk album of songs about the Lancashire Cotton Famine. It features poems from the time collected by University of Exeter, as well as original songs by the band.

Cath Rogan says “As soon as we heard about the poems we wanted to do something about the Cotton Famine, it’s a piece of working class history which doesn’t get taught in schools and is largely forgotten.”

@CottonFaminePoetry tweeted that they were "Very happy that @Motheroforder1 are working to let people hear these century-and-a-half-old words from Lancashire."

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Not long ago, I was sitting in a meeting and noticed that I was the only one there who wasn't being included in the discussion. It wasn't because I didn't have anything to say. Instead, it was because of my gender. In this particular situation, I was being overlooked sheerly because I was a woman – not because I didn't have anything valuable to contribute.

At first, I questioned whether or not this was really what was happening. Perhaps there was some other reason that I was being excluded. Not long ago, however, I attended the Women in Educational Leadership Conference . There, I...

Funding expected to total £1.2 million ($1,566,874) over four years from the USA’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help Exeter academics advance understanding about the underlying biological mechanisms leading to some people with Alzheimer’s disease developing psychosis.

The grant is one of eight awarded by the NIH’s National Institute on Aging (NIA) as part of its Molecular Mechanisms of the Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer’s Disease program, and will fund research that aims to pave the way for new treatments, and better diagnosis and classification of psychosis in...