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A cocktail lifestyle and a fear of castration: What is the Playboy brand?Creative Commons Image gillyberlin under CC-BY licence

14 June 2011

Hugh Hefner's aspirational brand supported emancipation - up to a point. But has the bunny brand been bypassed by history? Read more : A cocktail lifestyle and a fear of castration: What is the Playboy brand?

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By Dr Peter Claus (The Open University)

13 May 2005

Peter Claus explores the interface between academic history and recreational genealogy. Read more : Family and Identity

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By Bill Purdue (The Open University)

11 February 2005

Bill Purdue asks some searching questions about popular views of the second world war. Read more : Whose war was it, anyway?

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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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