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History & The Arts
The Experience and Memory of 11 November 1918
Were the British people as jubilant as some newspapers depict on the day of the Armistice in 1918? Vincent Trott explores the mixed feelings at the end of the First World War.
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History & The Arts
Introduction to music theory 1: form
In this free course, you will learn how to identify musical form through close engagement with recorded of music, and studying examples of folk, popular, and classical music from several world traditions. You will explore a number of methods of representing form, including alphabetical designations (e.g., AABA), genre-specific terminology (e.g.,...
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History & The Arts
The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
How are celebration, silence and ambiguity used to depict the armistice in A Man Could Stand Up - volume 3 of Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford?
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History & The Arts
‘There Were Four of Us’
How Ken Russell’s Gothic reinstates the missing woman at the Villa Diodati.
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History & The Arts
Horror and politics
How Ken Russell’s Gothic foregoes radical politics in favour of sex and necromancy.
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History & The Arts
20 things you might not know about Belfast
Belfast is a fascinating place. Here are some facts about the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland...
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Society, Politics & Law
Sacred and secular
Leaders in the fields of religion, law and business discuss the complications when the three align in this short video series.
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History & The Arts
The Belfast linen industry
A trip to the tailors reveals the true fabric of Belfast history.
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History & The Arts
How I wrote Frankenstein
In this extract from the preface to the third edition of Frankenstein, published in 1831, Mary Shelley explains how she came to write her most famous novel.
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OpenLearn Ireland
Murals in Belfast
Murals capture snapshots of key moments of Belfast's political history that are key to understanding the various communities present in the city.
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History & The Arts
Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?
Did the social media hype around the theatrical release of ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ save the box office during a difficult time for the film industry?
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Society, Politics & Law
Sacred and secular: Revd Robin Gibbons
Can empowerment of minority religious communities come from acknowledgement from the law and majority groups?