
History & The Arts
London's 1818 public health crisis
200 years ago today, the Morning Post shared a report into a health crisis gripping London - and how public health solutions offered a way out of the mess.

Society, Politics & Law
Key events in Scotland, 1920s-2016: A timeline
An interactive timeline of the most important events in Scottish political, cultural and economic history.

History & The Arts
Christmas at war: 1918 - At peace, but not at home
The war may have ended in November, but some men who had been captured were still facing a Christmas in the prison camps.

Education & Development
Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Jill St George, a lecturer in Law at The Open University, looks at slavery in Barbados and lays out the case for reparations for the state.

History & The Arts
Protestivals - What are they?
Protest Festivals or ‘Protestivals’ as they are also known, might seem like a relatively new concept, but scholars say that the roots of this particular form of protest can be found in the alternative globalisation movements that started in the 1980s.

Society, Politics & Law
From Conversations on co-production to participants’ engagements
Introducing the participatants in the projects, and exploring their ideas and motivations

History & The Arts
Olde dessert recipes
Try making some dessert recipes - and get a taste of bygone days.

History & The Arts
Listening for form in popular music
This free course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. It looks at three strategies for communicating form – through the use of specialist terms (such as ‘chorus’ and ‘bridge’), alphabetic designations (for example AABA), and visual diagrams. It also considers how the form of a song works with ...

History & The Arts
Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
The music of Mozart has been used to examine the foreground and middleground of harmony in free courses AA314_1 and AA314_2. In this free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background, you will use Beethoven's Eighth Symphony to consider the largest-scale stage of voice-leading analysis.

History & The Arts
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
Music is created to be performed, in most cases for an audience, whether in a concert hall, at a street fair or through a radio. But how those listeners receive a piece or style of music influences future music production. This free course, Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective, explores how audience reception, changing social ...

History & The Arts
In conversation with Terry Waite
How was Terry Waite able to build rapport with an Islamic extremist group? After being held captive for nearly four years, the former hostage has spent his life reconciling for peace. He talks to Open University Professor John Wolffe about how his incarceration in Beirut profoundly influenced his view that conflict resolution is rooted in ...

Education & Development
The Environment
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