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Re-inventing childhoodFarnworth

By Professor Hugh Cunningham (Guest)

15 September 2006

Each generation remakes the meaning of being young. Hugh Cunningham explores some of these childhood inventions.  Read more : Re-inventing childhood

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OU on the BBC: The Invention of Childhood - Programme guidesFarnworth

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

15 September 2006

The invention of childhood travels through 1,000 years of children's history, from the ravages of the Black Death to the impact of the internet -...  Read more : OU on the BBC: The Invention of Childhood - Programme guides

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Trust and the state of natureBBC

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

30 August 2006

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), perhaps the greatest English political philosopher, argued that life in the state of nature would be, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"....  Read more : Trust and the state of nature

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On trust and philosophyBBC

By Professor Tom Bailey (Guest)

30 August 2006

On a journey from Plato's Republic to the Mitchell Brothers' Walford, can we use philosophy to understand trust?  Read more : On trust and philosophy

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The truth behind the torch Copyrighted Image London 2012

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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