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History & The Arts
Putting baby in a context: Stephen Lee Naish's Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
In Deconstructing Dirty Dancing, Stephen Lee Naish unpacks the enduring popularity of the film Dirty Dancing, released to mixed reviews in 1987 before going on to become a global hit. Offering a comparative study of the film with David Lynch’s Blue Velvet before a scene-by-scene analysis and reflections on the film’s personal resonance for the ...
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Nature & Environment
Do animals really raise human babies as their own?
Myth, history and popular culture tells of children raised by wolves and more. Do these stories have any basis in truth?
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Education & Development
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
In this transcript from Thinking Allowed, Laurie Taylor and guests discuss the role of the teenage bedroom across history - with a little help from The Beach Boys.
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Society, Politics & Law
Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
John Booth reviews Owen Jones' Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class and asks how the image of the bulldog breed turned into a narrative of feral children.
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History & The Arts
Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
The expression of emotion is key to the spread of declarations online. But can online identities really address the difficult political realities of migration?
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History & The Arts
Henry Tudor: a Welsh hero…?
Dr Richard Marsden from The Open University discussed on BBC Radio Wales about the installation of the statue of Henry VII at his birthplace of Pembroke, and what it means to his ambiguous reputation in Wales today.
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History & The Arts
What is a Sardinian dig telling us about female mobility of the Phoenicians?
DNA and archaology are coming together to reveal how multicultural a great Empire was.
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History & The Arts
A new union flag
How can the Union Jack be made more open, more participatory, more held in common?
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Society, Politics & Law
Mashing up the Union Jack
Can Gil Doron’s intriguing proposals to remix different heritages in a national flag aid processes of cultural syncretism?
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History & The Arts
Christmas at war: 1918 - At peace, but not at home
The war may have ended in November, but some men who had been captured were still facing a Christmas in the prison camps.
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History & The Arts
Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
Jennifer J* Moos responds to Michael Greaney's thoughts on how the science of sleep is portrayed in modern literature.
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Education & Development
Interdisciplinarity: A collection
Bringing together the best of interdisciplinary resources from across OpenLearn – could an "Open" qualification be right for you?