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The Romantics
History & The Arts

The Romantics

...and studying literature... Romantic authorship Professor Andrew Bennett discusses the idea of authorship. The self How did Romantic writers represent ‘the self’? Wordsworth and De Quincy Bill Greenwell adapts one of Wordsworth’s poems ‘To daffodils’ in the voice of Thomas De Quincy. Romantic timelines What is the impact of writing in different literary periods?...
Audio 31 mins
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...de Hooch and Jacob van Ruisdael seem to offer a faithful picture of life in the Netherlands at the time. In studying this free course, Dutch painting of the Golden Age, you will discover that there is much more to Dutch painting than meets the eye. You will explore scholarly debates about the possible meanings that might be attributed to this type of picture and learn how...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?

...de Condorcet and Jean-Charles de Borda. (Condorcet was friends with Thomas Jefferson, who appears to have paid little attention to Condorcet’s writings about voting.) Condorcet suggested that, if an absolute majority – more than half the voters – prefers Candidate X to Candidate Y, then Candidate Y should not be the winner. That seems very reasonable. Why not make...
Migrant businesswomen and the census
Society, Politics & Law

Migrant businesswomen and the census

...based on data collected from the Census. The best way to discover when this new content is live to subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on our social media channels: Twitter, Facebook or Instagram . About the project [Laura Hampton ] The project will tell herstories of twentieth-century migrant women entrepreneurs by comparing their presence in the latest available...
Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...based commitment to radical decentring. In this connection, Chan (2018) maintains that “decolonialists posed the significance of how cultivating a politics of decentralization – and a decentring of the self as expert and knowledge practitioner – might offer an affront to modernity’s domination and its politics of self-replication through the occupation of other...
African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...De Brosses to describe African religions in general. In doing so De Brosses extended the term fetishism to African people, cultures and traditional religions by placing this term in opposition to the European Enlightenment ideal of rational thought and to the Catholic Christian dogma of idolatry (Böhme, 2014). As reported by Böhme, fetish gradually replaced the concept...
Rhieni a gwarcheidwaid: Ateb eich cwestiynau
Education & Development

Rhieni a gwarcheidwaid: Ateb eich cwestiynau

...De Cymru yma i ateb eich cwestiynau. ...Cyngor ar gyfer y broses ymgeisio A ydych chi’n pendroni sut allwch chi gymryd rhan a chynnig cefnogaeth yn ystod y broses ymgeisio? Yn y fideo hwn, mae Alexandra yn cynnig cyngor ymarferol mewn perthynas â sut allwch chi gynorthwyo eich person ifanc yn ystod o broses o wneud penderfyniad, o fynychu dyddiau agored i geisiadau...