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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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Article 15 mins
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,...
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Article 5 mins
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...History...Art in Renaissance Venice: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: be aware of the art and culture of fifteenth-century Venice be aware of the nature of cultural exchange in Renaissance Europe understand how Venetian art challenges the canonical view of Renaissance art as a purely western European phenomenon start to develop skills...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...family members. The example is given of a woman being supported to search and find housing association accommodation. Disadvantaged in Leeds developing Skills for Tomorrow This project appears to have a broad reach across a multicultural community. It specifically offers help to: people with fewer educational qualifications, perhaps because they left education prematurely...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
1 July 1916: the beginning of the Battle of the Somme
History & The Arts

1 July 1916: the beginning of the Battle of the Somme

...history, with 19,240 dead and 35,493 injured – total casualties (including the dead, injured, prisoners of war and those missing) amounted to 57,470. No matter how often one reads these statistics, they remain staggeringly and inconceivably high. When fighting ended in November 1916, the BEF had gained an area of approximately 10 kilometres along a stretch of 35...
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Article 10 mins
Researching Nirvana: Whatever, Nevermind
History & The Arts

Researching Nirvana: Whatever, Nevermind

...Schuman and Jacqueline Scott. 1989. “Generations and Collective Memory.” American Sociological Review 54: 359-384. Barry Schwartz and Howard Schuman. 2005. “History, Commemoration, and Belief: Abraham Lincoln in American Memory, 1945-2001.” American Sociological Review 70(2): 183-203. This article was originally published by The Society Pages under a CC-BY licence...
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Article 5 mins
Prospecting for water on the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Prospecting for water on the Moon

...history of water and other important molecules in the vicinity of Earth. "The Moon still holds many mysteries." Meanwhile, scientists had been continuously honing their analytical techniques in the laboratory, performing ever more sensitive and exquisite analysis on those precious Moon soil and rock samples. Their findings suggest that the Moon not only contains water as...
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The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...History Why did the authorities want to protect the Jews? Jews in Venice offered useful credit facilities. It is not the case that Christians were prevented from providing financial services. Christians were not supposed to lend money at interest (stigmatised as usury), but there was plenty of creative accounting in order to get around this rule, for example by claiming...
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