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Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...world is capable of this? Yesterday, hours before the attack in Craigavon, Sir Hugh Orde discussed the security picture with the Prime Minister. If he feels he needs something more, then he will ask for it, but he stresses that "you have to be realistic about this". There is no such thing as perfect security or a complete intelligence picture - never has been. For all the...
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Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...world. In Wales, there were already traditions, such as Mari Lwyd, where people would dress up and sing or tell each other stories, going from household to household. People with makeshift instruments would perform in the streets and were paid in food and drink. These elements of Carnival were already there, over a hundred years ago. As well as this, a travelling fair...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...world to ours, and correspondingly held very different beliefs? To explore these questions, you are first going to look at the life of one key classic thinker of freedom, John Locke. Who was Locke and why does he matter? [Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Source of Entry: Collection of Sir Robert Walpole, Houghton Hall, 1779.]John Locke (pictured left) was...
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Why is FGM practised?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is FGM practised?

...World Health Organisation (WHO, 2025) has sounded the alarm that one in four FGM procedures are now medicalised amounting to over 50 million women and girls being subjected to FGM by health care providers. It is suggested that healthcare practitioners may be erroneously performing medicalised FGM for several reasons, including: to legitimise FGM to fit in as members of...
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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...worlds, it is essential to understand why hair matters to them’ (Bank, 2004). For the vast majority of Black women and girls, hair is not just hair; it contains emotive qualities that are linked to one’s lived experience and identification. Historically, hair has held significant roles in traditional African societies, including being a part of some language and...
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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...World-changing women: Download your free booklet of postcards. 2: Alexander Fleming - discoverer of penicillin Transcript Who'd have thought this guy would've saved millions of people with some accidentally discovered 'mould juice'?! Sir Alexander Fleming, born in 1881, was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He is best-known for discovering the antibiotic...
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Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...world from droughts, floods and storms is 93% lower than it was in the 1920s is not because the climate’s got less dangerous in that time; droughts, floods and storms are probably just as common as they were then. It’s because people got richer, they got better sheltered, better transport, better communication, all these kind of things. So when a hurricane hits a...
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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...world’s first mobile phone recycling scheme to comply with all legislation. Over 18 million phones each year were being replaced in the UK around 2000 and without opportunities for reuse and recycling would have probably gone as potentially hazardous waste to landfill. In Fonebak’s first two years of operation (2002– 04) the company processed 3.5 million mobile...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs