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History & The Arts
A reader's guide to Midnight's Children
Discover Salman Rushdie's 1981 Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children.
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History & The Arts
English monsters
Dr Tim Hammond takes a look at dogs and the poor on the English Renaissance stage, particularly in Shakespeare's history plays.
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Society, Politics & Law
Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Lynn Sheridan has campaigned for social justice throughout her life. Here she shares with us how it all started, her personal journey and what continues to motivate her
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Society, Politics & Law
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
This course will introduce you to the work and writings of George Orwell through a study of his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). By studying the book, well-known for its depiction of a totalitarian state, and the techniques, language and oppressive methods used by such states, you will gain a wider understanding of the meaning of ...
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History & The Arts
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
In the eighteenth century and into the early part of the nineteenth, considerable numbers of aristocratic men (and occasionally women) travelled across Europe in pursuit of education, social advancement and entertainment, on what was known as the Grand Tour. A central objective was to gain exposure to the cultures of classical antiquity, ...
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History & The Arts
The Dog of Alcibiades
Getting people to gossip about your dog can be a useful way of distracting them from talking about you!
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History & The Arts
Doctor Who and human history
In the Doctor Who historicals, the bad guys often won - no matter what the Doctor tried. Tony Keen looks at why the Doctor can not change the human history.
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History & The Arts
Star Trek and the Greeks
Like many science fiction series, Star Trek in all its incarnations has drawn upon human history
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Society, Politics & Law
A woman's place is in the Union - a film by the EIS
In 2018 the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) began archiving the contributions of former women activists who played a key role in the disputes of the 1970s and 1980s
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Society, Politics & Law
Recording women's experiences and resilience during Covid-19
For International Women's Day 2021, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) recorded the experiences of women during Covid-19
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History & The Arts
What is a literary festival?
Literary festivals have gained traction in recent years, and perhaps one of the better-known literary festivals in the UK is ‘The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts’.
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The importance of planning a musical performance
Many of us have had the festival experience as a spectator, but what’s it like to actually perform at a festival in front of hundreds of thousands of people? Dr Sean Williams, Lecturer in Music Technology, shares his experience DJing at Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.