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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.
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History & The Arts
Selling Empire: Exhibitions
Trace how Empire changed from being a bit-player in the 1851 Great Exhibition, to the main focus of the 1924-5 Wembley Empire Exhibition.
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History & The Arts
The First World War continues: Britain’s dash for Mosul, Iraq, November 1918
After the armistice of 1918, why did the British occupy Mosul, Iraq? Dr John Slight looks at the continued hostilities in the Middle East after the guns fell silent on the Western Front.
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History & The Arts
World Religion Day
As part of World Religion Day's aim to promote understanding of different faiths, we have compiled a great range of resources on religions and themes.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Blue chat for a blue day: collecting some thoughts on the marketing wheeze that is Blue Monday.
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History & The Arts
The legacy of Empire: The Bengal Famine
Does the Bengal Famine shape the way Indians view the British?
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Science, Maths & Technology
Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
3-4 January 2023 will see the peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower. What’s the connection between meteors, iron and Egyptian beads? Dr Diane Johnson, a Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Faculty of Science, explains more about ‘iron from the sky’.
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History & The Arts
How do musical instruments produce sound?
Alexander Kolassa looks at how we hear music and discusses the categories which musical instruments belong to.