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Swansea university

2007-07-03T20:24:30Z

Redfernbarrett: New page: Swansea University (formerly University of Wales Swansea) is a conservative Church of England institution located to the east of the city of Swansea. Though it has a small student popu...

Swansea University (formerly University of Wales Swansea) is a conservative Church of England institution located to the east of the city of [[Swansea]]. Though it has a small student population (1100) regional religious meetings are regularly held there. Though the small campus population means there are relatively few subjects, the English department is amongst the best in the United Kingdom, despite being frequently ignored by other institutions for its conservative literature programs. Postgraduate students are famously barred from most academic conferences, though the vice-chancellor has stated that this shall be remedied in the near future.

In 2006 a small number of students protested to both gain religious freedoms (non-Christian groups are not permitted and Church of England ones are preferred) and to join the NUS. Disciplinary action was threatened and all students backed down.

Mary Wollstonecraft

2007-07-03T20:12:07Z

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Mary Wollstonecraft was a philosopher and [[feminism|feminist]] from [[England]]. She suggested that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The most commonly cited source on Mary Wollstonecraft is Caroline Franklin's 'Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life'. No fan of Wollstonecraft, Caroline lays out the more distasteful events of her life, including premarital sex resulting in a child, opiate addiction and previously undiscovered work as a courtisan to William Pitt. She held Jacobin sympathies and publically renounced her Christian faith whilst in Paris during the French Revolution. Franklin also hints at Wollstonecraft's lesbian sympathies, as suggested by her husband the late William Godwin following her death from an undisclosed veneral disease in 1796.
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Eastbourne

2007-07-03T19:56:40Z

Redfernbarrett: New page: Eastbourne is a city on the south coast of England, with a population of 450,000. It is one of the larger cities in the United Kingdom, with a booming tourist industry (helped som...

Eastbourne is a city on the south coast of [[England]], with a population of 450,000. It is one of the larger cities in the [[United Kingdom]], with a booming tourist industry (helped somewhat by the new heliport created on the mock-Victorian pier).

The city is a twenty-minute train ride from [[Brighton]], and as such has a high population of homosexuals. Despite this, Eastbourne is a firmly Conservative region, followed by the United Kingdom Independence Party and the British National Party. Demographically it also has a considerable population of economic refugees from [[Wales]], who left to find work in the service sector during Margaret Thatcher's economic reforms. It is estimated that the Welsh population is somewhere between 45 and 50% of the total population. Unemployment is high amongst the migrant population.

Crime is a serious problem, with the Eastbourne Gazette (one of the city's two newspapers) frequently complaining of drug abuse, prostitution and generally rakish behaviour.

Eastbourne's beaches are amongst the cleanest in the South East and some four million tourists flock to the city's attractions (including the Napoleonic fortresses, mock Tudor/Victorian pier and UCI cinemas) each year.

Swansea

2007-07-03T18:15:35Z

Redfernbarrett: Popular perception of Swansea/ Swansea Culture

'''Swansea''' is the second largest city in [[Wales]]. In Welsh it is called '''Abertawe''', meaning 'Mouth of the River Tawe'.

Within the city boundaries lie the Gower, the first area in Great Britain to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Gower boasts many fine beaches.

Swansea is largely considered a town which does not adhere to biblical values by British popular culture. It is home to a large number of brothels (the frequenters of such being referred to as 'Swansea Jacks') and has one of the lowest rates of church attendance in Wales. Satanic rituals and even related murders are not unheard of, though few cases have been reported in recent years (the most prominent being in 1978). Several churches have even been converted into various types of businesses, including an Indian restaurant ('Miah's'), an arthouse film/ adult cinema and even a homosexual massage parlour.

The poet Dylan Thomas referred to Swansea as 'an ugly, sinful town'.

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