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The decline of neighbourlinessNew contentCreative Commons Image amypalko under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 licence

By Emily Cockayne (The Open University)

09 May 2012

Emily Cockayne, associate lecturer for the Open University discusses the social changes that have happened over the garden fence  Read more : The decline of neighbourliness

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Order your free Empire posterCopyrighted Image The Open University

20 February 2012

Follow the link to get your free map wallchart showing the British Empire and how it attempted to adapt to a changing world.  Read more : Order your free Empire poster

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Why Liverpool 8 exploded - and what happened nextCreative Commons Image John S Turner under CC-BY-SA licence

By Professor Laurie Taylor (Guest), Dr Richard Phillips (Guest), Dr Diane Frost (Guest)

26 July 2011

Thirty years after the centre of Liverpool was the site of sustained rioting, a new book explores the causes, and finds out what happened next....  Read more : Why Liverpool 8 exploded - and what happened next

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What do children know about politics, and how do they react?Creative Commons Image RedEyedRex under CC-BY licence

By Dr Dorothy Moss (Guest), Professor Laurie Taylor (Guest)

26 July 2011

Dorothy Moss' research suggests children pick up political stories as part of their every day lives - but it's too glib to assume that their...  Read more : What do children know about politics, and how do they react?

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The 1981 Toxteth Riots: Behind the storyCreative Commons Image Sue Adair under CC-BY-SA licence

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

13 July 2011

Want to understand what really happened in Liverpool back in 1981? We've got some good places to start  Read more : The 1981 Toxteth Riots: Behind the story

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Whatever happened to the Likely Lads? How the working class turned into chavsTravellingtwo | Dreamstime.com

By Professor Laurie Taylor (Guest), Dr Imogen Tyler (Guest), Owen Jones (Guest)

05 July 2011

In the 1960s, the idea of working-class pride wasn't ironic. How have we come to be in a country when even the poorest seek to...  Read more : Whatever happened to the Likely Lads? How the working class turned into chavs

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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working ClassCreative Commons Image StarOpal under CC-BY licence

By John Booth (Guest)

29 June 2011

John Booth reviews Owen Jones' Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class and asks how the image of the bulldog breed turned into a narrative...  Read more : Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

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HG Wells and the mystery of the vanishing utopian sociologistsNCMallory under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Professor Laurie Taylor (Guest), Professor Ruth Levitas (Guest)

29 June 2011

HG Wells was one of the first sociologists - but why has his style of utopian sociology disappeared from the modern subject?  Read more : HG Wells and the mystery of the vanishing utopian sociologists

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Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and messCreative Commons Image Wellcome Library / Wellcome Images under CC-BY licence

By Professor Laurie Taylor (Guest), Martin Rowson (Guest), Professor Amanda Vickery (Guest), Professor Adam Kuper (Guest), Dr Wendy Maples (The Open University)

27 June 2011

In a roundtable discussion at The Wellcome Collection, the panel explore the difference between dirty and polluting, and why "not all poo is equal".  Read more : Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

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What is to be done about Lenin? Coping with the relics of past regimesCreative Commons Image joiseyshowaa under CC-BY-SA licence

By Professor Steve Pile (The Open University)

01 June 2011

The question of how Hungary approaches the memories of its Communist past has echoes for all cities with painful pasts.  Read more : What is to be done about Lenin? Coping with the relics of past regimes

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