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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...architectural shapes. These are created by the plinth on which the sculpture of the female figure sits and the setting of antique remains, but there are also diagonals in the architectural fragments at the figure’s feet. This geometric effect is softened by the inclusion of trees and foliage that appear stretched behind and above the figure, again creating the illusion...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...architectural blueprint for a system. Hence, the fitness for purpose of any description, from problem statement to working code, can only be established by the stakeholders involved in the process, bringing stakeholders to the heart of software development and highlighting their identification and participation in the process as a key success factor. As a consequence, in...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...architecture, in the nondescript style; and a chancel, in which traces of Decorated Gothic are to be detected. Externally, the church is plain, though clean; within, it has the appearance of an unusually long aisle, well whitewashed. At one extreme, near the belfry, is a gallery for the choir; at the other is the communion table. In the latter part are monuments, nearly...
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Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...Architecture and Design 1999). But the image of ‘City of Culture’ was particularly strongly contested. On the one hand Glasgow was looking outwards towards Europe in a new way – very different from the late nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century. From another perspective it was failing to look inwards: the promotion of European and international...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...architecture, which locked figures and objects into a geometric ‘grid’. Figures, derived from antique statuary, are idealised rather than realistic, and arranged hierarchically so that heroes and protagonists and the planes on which they are located are clearly dominant. Neoclassical compositions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries express the...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...architecture, so it is not surprising that ruined abbeys, moonlit castles and abandoned churches abound early Gothic novels and art. The word was first introduced by Horace Walpole in his 1764 novel, The Castle of Otranto, which he subtitled "A Gothic Story", which whisks readers away to a medieval Italian castle. However, it should be noted that the earliest recognized...
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Article 45 mins
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...architecture that a culture produces and their relationship to those things. * memorialising To preserve the memory of. Memorial culture takes in statues, plaques, and commemorative events. * metropole Central territory or state exercising power over a colonial empire. * Mexica empire A civilization, also known as the Aztec empire, that flourished in Central America...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?

...architecture. The practical union The second set of responses emphasises the need to focus first on what could work, deliver on policy proposals and then, if necessary, reform the EU’s institutional framework. Critics argue that this translates into muddling through excessively turbulent times. But many of the recent proposals emanating from Brussels and European...
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Article 10 mins