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Maintaining social order with gruesome images of Hell
Angeliki Lymberopoulou, a Lecturer in Art History at The Open University, explains the meaning of a fresco in the church of Kitiros in Crete.
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Read this before you fall for a personalised book
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the sales of personalised books go up, but are they as beneficial as other children's books? Professor Natalia Kucirkova explores...
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Rastafari in Israel
Hilde Capparella, PhD student in Religious Studies at The Open University, explains her research on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari in this article...
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The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
How have Santeria, Vodou or Rastafari become global religions? Hilde Capparella, a PhD research student at The Open University, explores African-Caribbean traditions and religions in this article.
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Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
Fake news is not a new phenomenon. Pauline Brown explores this concept in relation to the portrayal of black people as the inferior race in nineteenth-century newspapers.
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The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
It’s estimated that 25% of the Roma pre-war European population perished as a result of Nazi persecution. This article explores the anti-Roma prejudice that still goes on today, and what can be done to tackle it.
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The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after
A personal take on experiences before and after the Berlin Wall fell from an Open University lecturer in Classical Studies.
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Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award
Is there a magic ingredient to writing good sex scenes? This article explores...
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Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
This free course will prepare you for the challenges of doing research in an increasingly digital world. It introduces the methods of digital humanities and explains how research methods in the humanities can be combined with digital media and technologies. After completing the course, you will be able to analyse, understand and use digital ...
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
Paul-François Tremlett explains how Western representations of the Cargo Cults was in the contexts of colonialism, capitalism and racism in this video.
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Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
Scotland’s first black professor, leading human rights activist and Open University honorary graduate, Prof Sir Geoff Palmer CD, shares his history and Scotland’s slavery history.
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World-Changing Women: Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu worte the world's first novel, twice as long as War and Peace. Discover what is known about her life in this article...