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Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow: from tenements to riverside apartments Featuring: activity, Updated contentCopyrighted Image Hilary Mooney

By Dr Alison Gilmour (The Open University), Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University)

24 May 2012

We look back at the social history shaped by a ten-fold rise in population from 5,000 in 1850 to over 55,000 by 1901, and forward...  Read more : Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow: from tenements to riverside apartments

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The stories behind our streets Featuring: activity, Updated contentCopyrighted Image R P C Franklyn Limited

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

16 May 2012

Where do you live? One answer may be your postal address but what are the secrets behind your postcode? How has the street you live...  Read more : The stories behind our streets

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City Road, Cardiff: suburban thoroughfare  Featuring: activity, Creative Commons Image Cardiff Central Watch under Creative Commons license

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University)

10 May 2012

Known as Castle Road in the 19th century, we trace the changing character and communities of City Road, re-named in 1905, when Cardiff gained city...  Read more : City Road, Cardiff: suburban thoroughfare

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Park Hill, Sheffield: continuity and change Featuring: activity, Copyrighted Image Sheffield Local Studies Library

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

04 May 2012

What stories does Park Hill hold? From 19th century industrial squalor to iconic 'streets in the sky' in the 1960s, Park Hill, Sheffield changes once...  Read more : Park Hill, Sheffield: continuity and change

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Great Ancoats Street, Manchester: cottonopolis to urban village Featuring: activity, Copyrighted Image Isis Waterside Regeneration

By Dr Georgina Blakeley (The Open University)

04 May 2012

What are the stories behind this unique 'urban village'? From the largest mills of Manchester's 19th century industrial era to slum dwellings in the 1920s....  Read more : Great Ancoats Street, Manchester: cottonopolis to urban village

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Would Ruskin YouTube? Crafting and communitiesNo Copyright Image Public domain

By Professor Laurie Taylor (Guest), Professor David Gauntlett (Guest), Grayson Perry (Guest), Richard Sennett (Guest)

05 May 2011

Would John Ruskin see YouTube as a modern version of a cathedral gargoyle? Laurie Taylor and guests discus craft and community.  Read more : Would Ruskin YouTube? Crafting and communities

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Affirmative action? The fallout from quotasCreative Commons Image Ganesh Dhamodkar under CC-BY licence

By Billy Khokhar (The Open University)

04 July 2007

Billy Khokhar blogs about the effect of the Indian caste system on pupils' educational achievement.  Read more : Affirmative action? The fallout from quotas

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A reader's guide to GerminalNo Copyright Image By Paul Thompson. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

By Dr Stephanie Forward (The Open University)

01 May 2006

Emile Zola's novel Germinal, set in 1866-67, follows a community of coal miners and looks at the need for social change in the years following...  Read more : A reader's guide to Germinal

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Shakespeare: Our Contemporary?Production team

By Gill Stoker (The Open University)

27 October 2005

Gill Stoker considers to what extent Shakespeare woulld be at home in our contemporary world.  Read more : Shakespeare: Our Contemporary?

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A reader's guide to To Kill A MockingbirdNo Copyright Image By Moni3 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

By Dr Stephanie Forward (The Open University)

01 August 2004

Harper Lee's classic 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize and has become a timeless American classic.  Read more : A reader's guide to To Kill A Mockingbird

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As the Olympic flame wings its way around the UK, the OU's Aarón Alzola Romero asks: just how immemorial is the Olympic torch relay?

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