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History & The Arts
Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
How was Charles Dickens influenced by Victorian interest in dinosaurs? John C Murray explores how Dickens might have been shaped by the work of Richard Owen in this review of Gowan Dawson's Dickens, Dinosaurs, and Design in Victorian Literature and Culture 44.4
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Science, Maths & Technology
If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors
Bill Sullivan imagines the feedback facing The Avengers, if Hollywood worked the way scientific journals work. WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS.
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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.