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Education & Development
The Black History Month Talks
Explore the recorded presentations from The Open University's BME network's Black History Month event in October 2020.
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History & The Arts
David Bowie faces the last taboo
David Bowie's later work showed him taking on the taboo of death with the vigour he'd used to break barriers of gender and identity, says Elizabeth Tilley.
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History & The Arts
A Victorian Christmas: Victoria's Christmas
Victoria spends Christmas 1837 with a "merry" Lord Melbourne.
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History & The Arts
The distance between us
Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart on how society ‘helps’ us to rationalise the exploitation of other animals, giving us a ‘license to harm’.
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History & The Arts
Carnifal Butetown, y gorffennol, presennol, a'r dyfodol
Keith Murrell, arweinydd Carnifal eiconig Butetown yng Nghaerdydd, yn archwilio ei orffennol astrus a dyfodol disglair i ddathlu cymuned amlddiwylliannol Butetown, a chyfeirio at y camsyniadau a'r anghyfiawnder a wynebwyd ar hyd y daith.
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History & The Arts
Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
Keith Murrell, organiser of Cardiff’s iconic Butetown Carnival, explores its intricate past and bright future as a celebration of Butetown’s multicultural community, and addresses the injustices faced along the way.
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History & The Arts
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
This free course, Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution, will introduce you to issues around the sexual revolution and how this, and other contemporary social revolutions of the 1960s, impacted upon American rock musician Janis Joplin (1943-1970). You will investigate the extent to which the contemporary sexual revolution brought about ...
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Science, Maths & Technology
How to build a real lightsaber
Creating a light yet powerful tool that uses a blade of energy to defeat the Dark Side and also act as an effective shield against laser blasts is tricky. Here's a start:
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History & The Arts
Star Wars: The use of myth
How does a science fiction franchise have any resonance for audiences nowadays? The use of myth helps with familiarity...
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History & The Arts
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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History & The Arts
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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History & The Arts
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...