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The Unsung Women Who Shaped the Blues
Blues is a musical genre often associated with male pioneers. However, women were also a huge part of this development. This article shines a light on three women who helped shape the blues: Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith.
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History & The Arts
What was the impact of 'Spanish flu' on the armistice?
Flu claimed a number of lives as the First World War was ending. This article taken from our Timewatch series explores how devestating the influenza outbreak really was...
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History & The Arts
Why do we have a two minutes’ silence on 11th November?
Have you ever wondered where the two minutes' silence originated? Has the practice stayed unchanged since 1919? Find out here...
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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.