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Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...history of a Roman North African city. You will watch the video sequence ‘Exploring Thugga’ and undertake activities identifying Roman and indigenous elements in the city. You then investigate Roman and indigenous cultural elements in the archaeology of Africa; here you will watch two brief video sequences on mosaics, continue your study of the ‘Exploring Thugga’...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...history (e.g. events held at the Hippodrome of Constantinople during the Byzantine period, the outlandish Cotswold Games of the 17th century or the Wenlock Games of the mid-19th century), the Olympic spirit had remained largely dormant. De Coubertin’s efforts to stage a modern Olympic Games were initially met with apathy and limited success. However, after a passionate...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Breaking News: Wellington defeats Napoleon at Waterloo
History & The Arts

Breaking News: Wellington defeats Napoleon at Waterloo

...history. But how was it reported at the time? As you'd expect, not impartially...Great and glorious news Annihilation of Bonaparte's whole army, and his own narrow personal escape. Capture of the traitor's personal staff and carriage, and Two hundred and ten pieces of cannon [Wellington at Waterloo Hill painted by Robert Alexander Hillingdon, with astons suggesting a...
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Article 5 mins
Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?
Languages

Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?

...history also shows that a transnational language does not necessarily go into decline with the decline of the empire that spread the language. Indeed, English has shown no signs of decline since the end of the British Empire in the mid 20th-century; on the contrary, global English language learning has gone from strength to strength since then. When an empire dies, the...
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Article 5 mins
How did a natural disaster take us closer to Brexit?
Languages

How did a natural disaster take us closer to Brexit?

...history and 4.9 million barrel crude were released into the environment. In addition to the huge immediate damage, long-term effects are as yet unknown but are likely to include oil remaining in the food chain for generations to come. The disaster was the fault of BP (short for “British Petroleum”), a multinational corporation headquartered in the UK operating the oil...
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Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods
History & The Arts

Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods

...History shows that far more diverse and heavier losses than anything we know about today were attributed to menstruation. 4. Bleeding like a sacrificed beast was a good thing The classical Greek medical writers also mentioned the ideal of a woman bleeding “like a sacrificed beast”. To the modern reader, that sounds unpleasantly bloody. For a woman in ancient Greece,...
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Video 5 mins
Your journey of learning and discovery with us
Education & Development

Your journey of learning and discovery with us

...history, language and culture. Links to key OpenLearn Hubs – such as our Mental health and wellbeing hub. OpenLearn Create There are some extremely useful resources on OpenLearn Create which may support learners who need a gentler introduction to online learning, including the following: Everyday computer skills: developed in partnership with LEAD to equip people with...
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Article 5 mins
Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...history of practice, schools tend to spend a lot of time focusing on mechanistic matters. The purpose of education seems to be subsumed by processes and structures, dominated by an overemphasis on what might be seen as component parts of any wider goal (e.g. types of behaviour, grades, particular bits of subject knowledge, certain skills, school identity). Consequently,...
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Article 15 mins