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History & The Arts
Happy birthday Shakespeare!
It has been over 400 years since Shakespeare died, but his works still 'play on' today. Explore the life, times and legacy of the Bard of Avon...
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History & The Arts
National Storytelling Week
Are you a natural storyteller or do you fancy writing a novel? Look no further than here where we have an abundance of free resources for National Storytelling Week.
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History & The Arts
Twin Town a sinema Gymreig ar ddiwedd y nawdegau
Golwg ar y sin ffilm Gymreig oedd yn adlewyrchu Cymru wrth i'r cyfnod datganoli ddechrau.
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History & The Arts
Twin Town and Welsh cinema in the late 1990s
A look at the Welsh film scene that reflected how Wales saw itself as the devolution era began.
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History & The Arts
Latin graffiti at Pompeii
The writing's on the wall—read the graffiti left by residents of the ancient town of Pompeii, preserved by a volcanic eruption
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History & The Arts
Exploring immortality
To mark the new BA (Hons) qualification in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics (R45), Suzanne Newcombe and Carolyn Price discuss how researchers in Religious Studies and Philosophy investigate immortality.
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History & The Arts
After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
Despite British troops not leaving Egypt until the 1950s, the first Egyptian Revolution actually happened in 1919. Dr John Slight digs into the tensions that united the Egyptian people after the First World War...
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History & The Arts
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
Empires have existed throughout most of human history. They have spanned the globe. They have influenced the way we are governed, our systems of trade, how we use technology, our relationships with the natural world. They have shaped how we have seen, mapped and divided the world. They have profoundly affected how we have understood and ...
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Languages
How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto
Why has Tolkien's fantasy language had a greater impact than those who attempted to engineer a universal language?
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OpenLearn Ireland
Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms
What are online fandoms? What are the benefits of joining one – and how to make it happen? Read and watch this personal exploration of online music fandoms by Dr. Lauren O'Hagan.
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History & The Arts
100 Years of Votes for (some) Women
2018 marked the centenary of the 1918 General Election which allowed some women over the age of 30 to vote for the first time ever. Explore suffrage and women's history here...
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History & The Arts
A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime
In this extract from Roundabout Papers, William Makepeace Thackeray describes a festive entertainment which takes liberties with history. Not that Thackeray is above taking a few liberties of his own...