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“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
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“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...history and recent revival...‘A Peace of Us’ - the OU collection exploring why Good Friday Agreement matters 25 years on This arcicle is part of ‘A Peace of Us’, our special collection of resources exploring why the Good Friday Agreement is relevant to our lives 25 years since its signing. The Good Friday Agreement was to herald a ‘new era of equality’ for...
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Happy birthday Shakespeare!
History & The Arts

Happy birthday Shakespeare!

...history. You can explore each category in more detail in the tabs below. There's an additional tab conveying for Shakespeare’s notorious love poems, the sonnets (and for poetry in general). We've also provided the free eBook An Introduction to Shakespeare's First Folio to give you the low-down on the background to this amazing book. Select a tab to begin... The Comedies...
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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
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...history of a bigger mystery, I have written this story into my song. If it isn’t what you're used to, I hope it will amuse you. And maybe if you choose to then you’ll sing along. It goes: ‘I am as old as the universe, I’ve been here before and I’ll be here again. I am a child of the universe, A part of all women and a part of all men.’ Once upon a sometime and...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...family, the Medicis, seized power in 1434, marking the beginning fifty year rule. With their wealth and influence, the Medicis encouraged a vibrant exchange of intellectual, artistic, political and philosophical ideas, which enabled Florence to enjoy a period of unrivalled cultural activity. Cosimo Medici was patron to Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Angelico and Fillippo...
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Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...history back to the beginning of the seventh century, whence you can look back further still to the earliest Christian temples where the Romans worshipped with the Britons, whom they had enslaved and converted. But it was not till 627 that the little wooden chapel was built on the site of the Minster, to house the rite of the Northumbrian King Eadwine's baptism. He felt...
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Home education collection
Education & Development

Home education collection

...familial and personalised learning, obtaining qualifications and the cancellation of public examinations in 2020 and 2021, and employability and carer experiences of previously home-educated adults. But we won’t stop there. We will continue to develop and add new content and already have some exciting projects in the pipeline. Who are they for? These articles are...
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The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after
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The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after

...family of musicians but I first visited East Germany in 1982 when we went on a camping holiday, a group of ten of us, including children. We arrived at a campsite in Werder, near Potsdam at 3am and blundered about noisily setting up our tents on the playground, but no-one seemed too bothered. This was the first of a comedy of errors throughout the trip (we got as far as...
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