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Doctor Who and human history
History & The Arts

Doctor Who and human history

...worlds, and stories that placed the Doctor and his companions in the past. The show never quite alternated from one to the other, as originally intended. Nevertheless, in the era of the first Doctor, William Hartnell (1963-1966) just over a third of the broadcast stories (ten out of twenty-nine) were ‘historicals’, time-travel stories in which the Doctor encountered...
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Impossible Peace 2: "The taigs are getting everything"
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: "The taigs are getting everything"

...World War 3? What followed on September 10th was a day of madness; the manifestation of a sense of losing in the peace; heard firstly in that line “the taigs are getting everything” and then in the sound of gunfire. At a PSNI news conference and briefing on Sunday, September 11th, I watched film of loyalist gunmen and of a pipe bomb being thrown towards police lines....
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Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...world and shape our day-to-day work. If you are tempted to think that, as a practitioner, you could manage without something called ‘theory’, and simply rely on common sense, then think how you would feel about a new recruit coming into your workplace without a grasp of the kinds of key ideas that you noted above, or who was still operating with the assumptions that...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...world of stable parameters and given preferences, with little or no product or policy innovation – where history is a good guide to the future – this assumption might be perfectly valid. Competitive forces would tend to favour those who rationally use the evidence available and calculate probabilities correctly. In such circumstances, it would be as unwise as it is...
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Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...World War One, a campaign lasting four and a half months, and fought over a twenty-mile front near the Somme. In February 1916 Allied commanders had decided to launch an infantry offensive there, beginning on 1st July. Their ill-defined intention was to relieve pressure on Verdun and the Eastern front, wear down and drive back German forces and, over-optimistically,...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...world plays its part, as well as the human world. So decisions aren't just made by-humans for-humans, but there is some kind of way in which we can allow the non-human world to participate in that. So one of the weeks in block five of the module will return to that separation of nature and culture that we had very early in the module, and will look at different ways of...
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The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...world in the mid-19th century. For another, would-be reformers had a long history of over-promising and under-delivering when it came to educational technology; as far back as 1922, for example, Thomas Edison declared that “the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system.” Little wonder, perhaps, that the OU’s radically democratic experiment...
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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...world. In a suggestive 1984 article entitled ‘The present and the past in the English industrial revolution’ published in the journal Past and Present David Cannadine demonstrated how historical accounts of the industrial revolution have been influenced by the political, social and economic climate of the time in which the historian was writing rather than that of the...
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