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Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...human cost of WW1 was the loss of millions of working class lives. There was a new mood of militancy in Europe reinforced by a revolutionary surge in Russia. Soviet posters depicted toiling masses with outstretched arms being ground down by larger than life, wealthy and heartless capitalists (they might even come in threes!) And Lenin and the leadership of the Bolshevik...
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Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...human function and performance deterioration of body systems. However, they also cite that the effects of ageing can be delayed/offset with physical activity. Just because we reach a certain number/milestone birthday, or enter into retirement does not mean we have to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, and reflect on what we once could do. On the contrary the physiologic and...
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The science of making musical instruments
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of making musical instruments

...human ear or recording device and is called a sound wave. [sound source] [longitudinal sound waves] Flow of longitudinal sound waves Sound travels in the same way whether it is music or noise. The difference between music and noise is that musical sounds are organised into patterns that have pitch and rhythm whereas noise is just random, disorganised sounds. A particular...
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Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Anna Plassart]I never intended to become a historian; my first degree was in economics. But I discovered that I was less interested in contemporary economic theory than in the history of economic thought. Eighteenth-century writers were effectively inventing what we now call economics as...
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Learning from the Global South
Society, Politics & Law

Learning from the Global South

...human induced climate change is understood. The contributors from Fiji and Aotearoa/New Zealand then take up this baton (film 5) to make clear that the dominant climate narrative is scripted largely by the powerful countries of the Global North, in venues such COP26 in Glasgow. Nevertheless, that narrative can be changed, as the contributors suggest. Much like power...
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Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...humanities in the policy and media environments. There was a universal concern with best practice in teaching. Many colleagues were doing novel experiments in both teaching and assessment; applying these ideas in the unique environment of the OU will take some thought but is well worth considering. There was also a near-universal acknowledgement that undergraduate...
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Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...human habitation that one would rather not have met any tramps beside one's self on it. Presently I overtook one, a gentle old farm-wife, a withered blonde, whom I helped with the bundles she bore in either hand, in the hope that she could tell me whether I was near Marston Moor or not. But she could tell me only, what may have been of higher human interest, that her...
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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...human opponent – and crucially, win. It had proved a sensation in the courts of Europe with opinion equally divided whether it was an especially clever automaton, or if it actually concealed a human player. In 1819 the Turk came to Britain where Babbage challenged it to at least two games (he won one, lost the other). Babbage was convinced (correctly as it turned out)...
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