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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...working-class parents of these children had only dreamed of. Another nine major pieces of legislation were passed with strong support across the political parties before the decade was out. The list of legislation brought forward by Atlee's government shows that along with opportunities for access to education came a house building programme, free health services and,...
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Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...working partners. The time following these layoffs can be very depressing. The survivor guilt is a confused feeling of relief that it wasn’t them being laid off, plus, a sense of grief for their friends and colleagues who do not have a job. This is often accompanied by the feeling they didn’t deserve to be saved, leading to guilt. This feeling of relief and happiness...
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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...working on the railways in 1977. In this interview by Angela MacGregor, she speaks about her time as a union rep...Find out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Introducing Nan Zaimaitas by Angela MacGregor I first met Nan at the start of my own career in the Scottish Railways. You would be forgiven for overlooking this unassuming woman as...
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Opening up history: art in the Reformation
History & The Arts

Opening up history: art in the Reformation

...work to her, which led me to thinking about the place of art in the Reformation. Since my PhD I have explored how Protestants used images and objects to express their faith and status. 3. What is it about your specialist area that fascinates you? I’m fascinated by how inanimate objects become so important to people, how we give them meaning and how they shape everyday...
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What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...work of fiction? JONNY GELLER: Well, a literary agent primarily is there to discover new talent and exploit the rights derived from the copyright in that work. So we go out and find, we sift through the thousands that are sent to us and of course we also manage the careers of writers throughout their life, but really, it’s half business and it’s half creative,...
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Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers

...work on – skydiving – I mean you went parachuting yourself, just tell me a little bit about either your own fears and concerns about that or the feeling of jumping out of a plane? James Hardie-Bick: Well I think fears and concerns are definitely the right words to describe it. After the training, which was four days of training and you’re shown videos of what can go...
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What LGBTQ+ Relationships Can Teach Us About Love
Health, Sports & Psychology

What LGBTQ+ Relationships Can Teach Us About Love

...work, and researchers now have hundreds of studies under their belt for why this is. Download the Paired app for LGBTQ+ dating and relationship advice, daily questions, quizzes and more. A study published by the Open University has found that gay couples are likely to be happier in their relationships than their heterosexual counterparts and several reasons have been...
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Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...work, study and everyday life. The course has four sessions, which cover the following topics: numbers, measurement, shapes and space, and handling data. There will be plenty of examples to help you progress, together with opportunities to practise your understanding. A Welsh-language version of this course is also hosted on OpenLearn Cymru. Everyday maths 1 was written...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs