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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...
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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....
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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...history of Rome to his own day, though as with Livius, only fragments of these are preserved. However, Virgil’s masterpiece, the Aeneid, eclipsed both these poems, becoming the greatest example of Latin epic and a cornerstone of Roman identity, which has continued to inspire writers and artists for over two thousand years. [Described image] Figure 1 Virgil and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...history, but another school administrator at the spelling bee tells me the same thing happened to her parents. At last year’s bee, José Reyes, a bilingual instructor from Gadsden Independent School District in New Mexico, told me that a teacher punished him for speaking in Spanish. He went to school in El Paso, Texas, in the 1960s and 70s. “I used Spanish and I...
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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...history, it’s about things that go back a long way and are very deep rooted. But the interesting thing is how do you turn an industrial city into a successful modern place and I think the best shot is Manchester, what they seem to have done here more than anywhere else is be very bold with what they’ve done like bringing back trams. The Salford Quays development....
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...families and life histories for example. This disconnect between talking about children’s texts and their own adult reading material was significant. It was fed back to the teachers, who began to re-consider what counts as reading in their homes and schools. Gradually, as they began to read much more children’s literature, they came to talk about it as worth reading...
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