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...open to many interpretations. The quality, reliability and authenticity of evidence always needs to be probed for potential bias, limits and blind spots. In this course we will be focusing mostly on the variety of methods for presenting and organising qualitative and quantitative evidence. So, we will focus on how to understand the ways in which evidence is presented, how...

...Open University's History and Social Sciences qualification. Background The public, political and cultural representations of working-class activism in opposition to industrial closure are dominated by the image of the militant male worker. Leaders like Jimmy Reid, Arthur Scargill and high-profile disputes by miners, shipyard workers, car workers, steel workers and others...

...Open University's Social Sciences courses. Background The American corporation Timex first came to Dundee in 1946, setting up with eleven workers in the back of a converted farm building. At its peak in the 1970s, Timex had become one of the largest employers in the city, employing thousands of workers at four sites across Dundee. Most of the Timex workforce were women...

...Open University Twitter account. Each week, we'll be tweeting key milestones from the 1979 election campaign that correspond with the 2015 election countdown. Here on OpenLearn, you'll find a wealth of content from our academics comparing and contrasting the two events as well as some interesting archive materials. Anyone fancy reading Thatcher's beauty tips, for example?...

...Open University's Economics courses. Transcript: Bill Phillips was a crocodile hunter and economist from New Zealand, who spotted that, when employment levels are high, wages rise faster - people have more money to spend, so prices go up and so does inflation. And likewise, when unemployment is high, the lack of money to spend means that inflation goes down. This became...