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Health, Sports & Psychology
Football culture: the use of banners
What role do team banners play in the wider context of football culture?
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History & The Arts
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
This free course introduces Virginia Woolf’s last novel, Between the Acts (1941), with the aim of understanding how she writes about time, memory, and ideas about identity. It also considers why Woolf’s fiction is often considered difficult. Selected extracts from her essays on writing help to clarify some of these perceived difficulties, ...
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Society, Politics & Law
The weakness of European Wales
Why did ‘left-wing’ Wales vote to Leave the EU?
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OpenLearn Ireland
The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
10th April 2018 marks 20 years since the Good Friday Agreement was made.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Are selfies a terrible thing?
Is the rise of the selfie a sign of a culture collapsing into narcissism - or is there something positive in the trend of arm's length self portraiture?
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History & The Arts
Match report: England v Scotland, 1872
The first international football match took place between England & Scotland in Glasgow, on November 30th 1872. Here's how it went.
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History & The Arts
Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
Think Richard III is the only medieval monarch whose body went missing? Here's a list speculating where other kings and queens may lie.
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History & The Arts
King Charles I, 1600 - 1649
First he lost his parliament; then his throne; then his head. Find out more about the King of England during this bloody era.
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History & The Arts
Masterpiece Me
Ever wanted to see how Warhol might have made you look? What about Monet or Picasso? Masterpiece Me gave you your chance.
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History & The Arts
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
The free course, Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin, gives a taste of what it is like to learn two ancient languages. It is for those who have encountered the classical world through translations of Greek and Latin texts and wish to know more about the languages in which these works were composed.
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History & The Arts
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
Individual artists have been the traditional focus of art history, but how do we evaluate the figure of the artist? This free course, Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael, takes the life of Raphael as a case study. You will examine sixteenth-century sources to explore the creation of artistic authorship in the early modern era. The ...
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Languages
Im Gespräch mit Jannis Androutsopoulos
In conversation with Hamburg University's Jannis Androutsopoulos. This content is in German.