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United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...Health Centre who attended the pool twice weekly for over 30 year with her disabled best friend, Margaret, a wheelchair user who enjoyed the easy access to the main pool and showers; Nessa Mechan, the local “provy wummin” and popular local campaigner who knew first hand that ordinary people did not have the means or ability to travel miles to an alternative facility;...
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Article 5 mins
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...public relations, in which portraiture and imagery played a key role. This allowed him to represent himself in a range of guises to appeal to as many people as possible. Dress can be an important tool for portraying oneself in a particular way, in the Roman period just as it is now, and it is largely through dress that Augustus was able to create his various guises. He...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...public and circulating library borrowing records have been uncovered to demonstrate how often various titles were requested; the contents of private libraries have been catalogued; and even literacy rates have been used to estimate the size of the reading public. This evidence is considered to be ‘hard’ because it is measurable or quantifiable: knowing how many copies...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...public broadcast point of view, in terms of what has loosened up, I think what has loosened it up is that all programme makers in my bit of the public service part of the broadcast world are just bombarded with source material after source material of the collapse in biodiversity and the collapse in processes in the natural world. In other words, it is becoming a bigger...
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Video 30 mins
Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...public space and territory, and an assertion of identity and belonging, that was evidence of the Protestant domination of politics and society in Northern Ireland. Prior to the 1970s, the majority of Unionist/Loyalist murals were linked to the annual commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne on 12 July 1690, when Protestant Prince William of Orange defeated Catholic King...
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Article 5 mins
About Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

About Earth In Vision

...public use. Along with the programmes themselves we have been working in the BBC’s paper archives of files related to programmes and policies, and we have also filmed nearly thirty full length interviews with media producers, from icons such as Sir David Attenborough and Desmond Morris, to up and coming digital natives who are drawing on new forms of web based social...
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Article 5 mins
Under Pressure again: Can the England team bring football home?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Under Pressure again: Can the England team bring football home?

...public and their manager who openly stated before the tournament that he felt he had a winning squad. Roll forward to 2016 and exactly 50 years since England’s iconic 1966 World Cup win, could this finally be England’s chance to shine? So what could make the difference? Perhaps remarkably, in 2016, England still have Hodgson at the helm, although often following a...
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Article 10 mins
Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?
Science, Maths & Technology

Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?

...public can take some small comfort in this; criminal organisations are not as well funded and the malware may be easier to remove without the loss of patient files. It is too early to say categorically who is responsible for the attack though it is certainly the most devastating cyber-attack on British infrastructure ever. But it is not just British infrastructure that...
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Article 5 mins