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History & The Arts
Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
Scotland’s first black professor, leading human rights activist and Open University honorary graduate, Prof Sir Geoff Palmer CD, shares his history and Scotland’s slavery history...The background My mother arrived in London as a Jamaican migrant in 1951. She worked in a range of jobs for less than £4 per week to save the £86 which paid my fare to join her in London in...
Education & Development
OpenLearning Champions Scotland hub
Scotland OpenLearning Champions Hub: This hub showcases the content on OpenLearn as an introduction to learners, and highlights the wide range of materials that have a Scottish context.
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Society, Politics & Law
Legal skills and debates in Scotland
...Scotland, considers how laws are interpreted and applied. It looks at legislation, court judgments, argument, judicial reasoning and rights. It also explores the relationship between society’s values and the laws which it supports and how policy and rights influence development of law...This free course, Legal skills and debates in Scotland, explores the role, function...
Society, Politics & Law
Working mothers in Scotland's railways
...Scotland’s railway. Marie Fox has been employed with Scotrail since 2014. Marie is a valued and committed employee, who has won an award for her charity work. The unfamiliar experience of informing a manager about her pregnancy understandably concerned Marie, but she thankfully received the reassurance she sought. Marie described the various pros and cons of becoming a...
History & The Arts
Valentine's Day in 1840s Scotland
...Scotland. My particular focus is on the use of music, with both social and therapeutic functions. Here, I’ve found programmes for annual Valentine’s concerts starting in the late-1840s which both demonstrate some of the repertoire in popular use at the time and illustrate some of the customs around the day itself. Under the Crichton’s superintendent W.A.F. Browne,...
Society, Politics & Law
Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation
...Scotland 2016 explores different aspects of poverty and disadvantage in Scotland in the context of the rapidly changing political context in Scotland – as well as in the UK. ...[The front cover of Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation] Poverty in Scotland 2016 explores different aspects of poverty and disadvantage in Scotland in the ......
Society, Politics & Law
Scotland and The Battle for Britain: Key places
...and The Battle for Britain features locations all over the country. Explore them and the rest of Scotland's geography with this interactive map...The BBC/OU TV programme Scotland and The Battle for Britain explores the true breadth and depth of Scotland: from rural lowlands to barren uplands, large cities to uninhabited islands. Below we map some of the locations from...