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Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside
Society, Politics & Law

Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside

...education 1915-20; McIvor and Patterson on employers’ anti-labour activities. ii. Kenefick, William and McIvor, Arthur J., eds. (1997) Roots of Red Clydeside, 1910-1914. Edinburgh: John Donald. Abstract This study, embracing recent and mostly new research, places Red Clydeside in context and gives perspective to the role of the First World War as an incubator of...
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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...de Commynes remarked that ‘most of the people are foreigners’. And this perception of a society in which northerners (Flemish and Germans), Dalmatians, Greeks, Muslims, Jews and mainland Italians mingled with indigenous Venetians was sharpened in the sixteenth century by the Venetian writer Francesco Sansovino: ‘Peoples from the most distant parts of the world...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...education of health and care professionals. For example, the University of Derby have an immersive interactive Clinical skills simulation suite that imitates a real ‘hospital ward’ and where students are able to make decisions about care in a ‘safe’ environment. Activity 3 The potential of digital technology for integrating care Watch the following video, which...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...educated person who studied the Bible. Patronage The ‘ideal’ patron of the arts is someone who financially supports an artist and purchases their work. However from the very earliest days of patronage, works of art were regarded as either items for use, or as a display of wealth, designed to enhance the prestige of both patron and artist. Historically wealthy...
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Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...educated the people of the region about the seriousness of the waste. From the effects of the nuclear bomb and the atomic bomb, and despite all this, we started messaging France to ask for their rights to retire, but the French were ducking and every time they argued something, for example, come to France and every lawyer or some personally. And he has various diseases...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...de Haan discusses the relationship between children and happiness...[Happiness pictured by 6 year-old Piers from Silverstone Infants School] What makes children happy? ‘That’s easy,' you might say, ‘a new toy, an ice cream or a trip to the amusement park.’ While these things bring an immediate smile to many children’s faces, they are probably not the things that...
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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...de-industrialisation as its native industries were unable to compete with cheaper British imports. Meanwhile, in America, as in Britain itself, workers were needed for manufacturing industries and for infrastructural projects such as the construction of canals and railways. Irish labour would help to meet this demand. Changes in the agricultural sector also incentivised...
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On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...de Jong, Umut Erel and Olga Jurasz. Olga: Alia what inspired you to make On a Wing and a Prayer? Alia: I had been asked by Goldsmiths’ Methods Lab to respond to John Berger’s book A Seventh Man, which is a portrait of guest workers in the European Union in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. There is a point in the book where Berger describes the building of a tunnel...
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