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History & The Arts
Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
As the series 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' turns 20 we look back at how, though she may have been a modern California girl, Buffy's relationships with creatures of the dark is a tale as old as Slayers themselves...
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History & The Arts
Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
Paul-Francois Tremlett explored the spaces the Occupy movement created - physical spaces, but also political spaces.
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Education & Development
How can we improve teaching about Islam?
Fear and distrust can grow where there's a lack of understanding. Could a different approach to teaching about Islam in schools help?
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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.
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History & The Arts
Stonehenge before the First World War
In this extract from Afoot In England, the naturalist and author William Henry Hudson despairs of a site already being turned into a tourist spectacle.
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History & The Arts
Nine days' wonder in York
William has much admiration for the Minster - but the joy of York is to be harshly curtailed...
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History & The Arts
Who was Mary Magdalene?
She appears in all the gospels, but we're still not entirely sure who Mary Magdalene was.
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Science, Maths & Technology
60 second adventures: Behind the scenes
Go behind the scenes with the 60-second adventures team to learn how OU academic content is transformed into informative and entertaining short animations.
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History & The Arts
The Life of Saint David
This extract from Alban Butler's 18th Century work on the lives of the saints tells the story of Wales' patron saint.
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History & The Arts
The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
Where did ideals and misconceptions around virginity and the hymen stem from? Helen King explores...
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History & The Arts
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
The essayist and poet Alexander Smith's Dreamthorp is a collection of essays he wrote in the countryside. This extract, titled Christmas, is anchored in the December of 1862, and includes some personal views which are very much of their time.
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History & The Arts
Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
Manga artist, folklorist and icon Mizuki Shigeru has died. Nevin Thompson explains the role he played in Japanese culture, and why he'll be so missed.