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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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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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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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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.
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History & The Arts
Getting started on classical Latin
This course has been developed in response to requests from learners who had had no contact with Latin before and who felt they would like to spend a little time preparing for the kind of learning that studying a classical language involves. The course will give you a taster of what is involved in the very early stages of learning Latin and will...
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Parlez-vous Eurovision?
As English-language songs dominate the Eurovision Song Contest in its 60th anniversary, this article (written in 2015) explores why so many of the songs are sung in English.
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Start writing fiction
Have you always wanted to write, but never quite had the courage to start? This free course, Start writing fiction, will give you an insight into how authors create their characters and settings. You will also be able to look at the different genres for fiction.
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Endgame - Regicide
The King had gone too far - and Parliament weighed the ultimate sanction: Regicide
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Society, Politics & Law
Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
In Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Richard Sennett approaches the question of how we should live in the city. Drawing upon two aspects of the city, the ville and the cité, the book promotes the virtues of an ‘open city’ that accepts and works with complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. While John Tomaney finds this a learned and ...