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Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...family and other important people in their lives notice and appreciate these skills. However, children should not be so focused on goals that they feel their happiness depends directly on achieving them. For example, a child who enjoys playing football for the game is likely to be made happier by the experience than one who can only feel happy if the team achieves a win....
The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...history of Bathgate, the Plessey plant and, through incorporating oral history interviews I conducted in 2015 and 2016, analyse the roots of worker mobilisation. I then examine the dispute, and in particular Plessey’s legal response and the landmark victory achieved by the workers at the Court of Session in Edinburgh. Background: Bathgate and Plessey The town of...
The working-class garden
Society, Politics & Law

The working-class garden

...history of gardening amongst the lower classes - the role of women, and how programmes like Ground Force threw working class traditions out to make way for all that decking...Find out about The Open University's Open degree Laurie Taylor: Sometime in the early ‘70s I found myself in the back room of a very large estate pub chairing a meeting of local council tenants....
Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions
History & The Arts

Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions

...history of his times, and in a musical and verbal folk tradition that goes back for decades. Many Indians celebrated the Dylan's win on Twitter: Giddy and delirious with joy! Bob Dylan gets Nobel for Literature 2016. Swingin' Sixties and Crazy Seventies get... https://t.co/hjpCSxjmjz — কাঞ্চন গুপ্ত (@KanchanGupta) October 13, 2016 Nobel Laureate...
The Life of Saint Andrew
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Andrew

...history and antiquities at Leipsic, in learned dissertations published in 1748 and 1751. The authority of this piece being contested, little stress is laid upon it: and the following account is gathered from the sacred writings, and those of the fathers. [ Saint Andrew, holding a scroll, looks intently to his left, indicating that the panel once may have formed part of a...
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...history and values. It is unique within the legal systems of the UK and the concepts of justice, equality, rights and fairness are at its core. In Week 1 you will explore how law is made in Scotland today. You consider the institutional sources of law; the institutions to which the state has given the power to make or interpret laws in Scotland. These include the Scottish...
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...history and what it can tell us about how to treat ‘eye-witness testimony'. Transcript Chris Williams I’m Chris Williams, a lecturer in History at The Open University. I’m at the Bletchley Park museum, a few miles from the Open University’s headquarters in Milton Keynes. It was here, during the Second World War, that the Allies broke many crucial enemy codes,...
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...history. In many people’s eyes, Gaelic belongs predominantly to the Highlands and (west coast) Islands, but the linguistic division of Scotland along the Highland/Lowland line reflects only the latter part of the country’s long history. Indeed, of recorded Scottish languages, Gaelic defers solely to English with regard to its maximum geographical extent. The only...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs