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Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...centre while the planets revolved around it, proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). The spread of these new ideas was aided by the development of printing using movable type, devised by Johannes Gutenberg (c.1398–1468) in the 1450s. There was also a significant change in the economy, with a decline in the number of people holding land under the feudal system....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Maintaining social order with gruesome images of Hell
History & The Arts

Maintaining social order with gruesome images of Hell

...research sheds light on how these images helped to maintain social order. The frescoes pictured damnation and torture, but employed a touch of modern advertising techniques. Angeliki Lymberopoulou, a Lecturer in Art History at The Open University, explains the meaning of a fresco in the church of Kitiros in Crete. The project "Damned in Hell in the Frescoes of...
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Quiz: Which Brontë sister wrote it?
History & The Arts

Quiz: Which Brontë sister wrote it?

...children where they would tell tales and write stories as part of their creative play. Eventually this led to collaborative writing and then the individual works they were able to publish after much difficulty, some of which are among the best-known novels in English Literature. But can you tell which sister wrote which line or phrase? Take the quiz and find out....
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TESSA: Dealing with Sensitive Issues
Education & Development

TESSA: Dealing with Sensitive Issues

...children discuss where babies come from. They are confused by their mothers' replies TESSA - The Notorious Fighter Tunde is always fighting, the teacher has given up on him but Madam Fati talks to Tunde's mother and persuades her to take more interest in her son. TESSA - Aduja's Predicament Aduja does not want to go home because her step father is abusive. Her teacher...
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Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media

...centre of the US election, Cambridge Analytica. Closer examination of the links between the two companies and the owners reveal a murky network of media companies owned by US billionaire Robert Mercer. In turn, these groups have links to Donald Trump, and to the owner of the right-wing newspaper Breitbart, Stephen Bannon, which raises the prospect that elections in the UK...
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...research on the personalities of political elites highlights a tendency for certain personality traits to be more common among politicians. Politicians are generally low in traits that imply trust and trustworthiness (such as agreeableness), and high in those that facilitate politicking, and operating clandestinely (Carparra et al., 2010; Silvester et al., 2013). Research...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...Centre and OU Law School students, with law school students across eight universities, collaborated and participated on a project that explored race and policing in the US and the UK. The race and policing project focus was, in part, to explore, analyse, and explain the ways race and racism intersect in public institutions and society more broadly. It has also been to...
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Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally
History & The Arts

Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally

...research 19th-century British literature for a living. But I have also spent time listening to and thinking about rock ‘n’ roll lyrics. Language is at the crux of both these projects, and it is a short step from one to the other. Great poems, like great lyrics, work in strikingly diverse ways. But at some level both almost invariably challenge set assumptions and...
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