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History & The Arts
World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen spent many years wiriting her prophetic visions down, helping the sick and preaching in a time of male hierarchy. Read up on her religious life...
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History & The Arts
World-Changing Women: Emily Davies
Emily Davies firmly believed that education was fundamental in improving a woman's place in society and strived for equality. Read her story here...
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History & The Arts
Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever
Dr Robert Samuels explores looping in music and demonstrates how technology can make musical use of the sound of a dog eating a carrot.
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History & The Arts
Sgwrs Agored - Wales: Music Nation
O werin i roc, mae cerddoriaeth wedi bod wrth wraidd diwylliant a chymuned Cymru erioed. Yn y Sgwrs Agored hon, mae'r DJ a’r cyflwynydd, Huw Stephens, yn trafod hanes a diwylliant cerddorol Cymru ag academyddion Y Brifysgol Agored.
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History & The Arts
Open Talks - Wales: Music Nation
From folk to rock, music has always been at the root of Welsh culture and community. In this OpenTalk, DJ and presenter Huw Stephens discusses Wales’ musical history and culture with OU academics.
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History & The Arts
Unlocking the diversity of the past
Historian Norena Shopland explains why our historical knowledge and perception is lacking when it comes to stories of diversity, and what we can do to change this.
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History & The Arts
Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol
Yr hanesydd Norena Shopland sydd yn yn egluro pam bod gennym ddiffyg gwybodaeth a dealltwriaeth hanesyddol wrth adrodd straeon am amrywiaeth, a'r hyn y gallwn ni ei wneud i newid hyn.
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OpenLearn Ireland
Podcast Art Gallery: A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
This interactive digital gallery showcases the artwork submitted by final year illustration students from Ulster University who entered a competition to design the cover art for our Good Friday Agreement Podcast.
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OpenLearn Ireland
A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
This Open University podcast discusses the ways in which The Good Friday Agreement changed our communities, arts, sports, and lives.
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History & The Arts
Diversity in religion: Islam
In this short course, Diversity in religion: Islam, you will explore how attitudes and opinions within a single religious tradition can be internally diverse. You will look at Islam in particular, considering the diversity of Muslim attitudes to same-sex relationships. This will focus mainly on relationships between men because Muslim legal ...
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History & The Arts
Good Churchill, bad Churchill?
Everyone has an opinion on former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. We take a look at some of the highlights as well as the controversies of his career.
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History & The Arts
The Bletchley Park connection
The once-hidden connection between Asa Briggs, Mary Siepmann, Alan Turing and many others—an estate used by British codebreakers during the Second World War.