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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...Project My name is Amanda Theunissen and I suspect I’m here because way back in the eighties I used to edit Nature, which was the BBC’s only environmental strand. It came from the Natural History Unit but they didn’t have any journalists and so I was called in as a journalist and, for about five years, we ran an environmental strand. I was the editor at one stage...
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Video 20 mins
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...introduction to masters level study in neurosciences and mental health. Focusing on anxiety and depression, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions, exploring how these conditions relate to each other. You will also explore some of the more contemporary and controversial findings within the field...This free advanced level course,...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
A reader's guide to Holes
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Holes

...with Sigourney Weaver as the sinister Warden and Jon Voight playing an odious guard, Mr Sir. The author has said that his main aim in his books is to make them enjoyable. The moral element has to be secondary to the pleasure provided. Certainly, despite the suffering it describes, ‘Holes’ manages to be a humorous novel and, ultimately, it proves to be truly uplifting....
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Article 5 mins
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse

...managers to discover what the poor of London could expect for their Christmas Day. The following is an extract of their report...Celebration of Christmas Day amongst the poor inmates of the metropolitan and suburban workhouses [Caricature of poor people at a workhouse having dinner; by Phiz] A view of a typical 1840 workhouse meal In the following will be found succinctly...
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Article 5 mins
Wellbeing and mental health collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing and mental health collection

...management or digital related stress. Mae'r casgliad yma hefyd ar gael yn Gymraeg. | This collection is also available in Welsh. [Wales logos] The development of this collection was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. It was delivered by The Open University in Wales in partnership with Wrexham Glyndŵr University, Addysg Oedolion Cymru | Adult...
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Article 10 mins
Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?

...projected to increase to 2 in 5 people by 2051 (Sport England, 2020). Where does the real problem lie? The BAME community are not, I repeat are not, in the position of power to change things to ensure that these barriers can be removed. This leads me onto the next question. What can be done in a country where racism and discrimination is getting worse and not better? A...
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Article 15 mins
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...Project Ozma there were no computers. It was all done by eye and ink on paper tapes. Dallas Campbell: So this is the original Project Ozma? This is the consul? Frank Drake: Consul for the telescope control. Project Ozma itself had a separate kind of group of equipment which isn’t, I don’t see it here. It looked a lot like this, but this isn’t it. Dallas Campbell:...
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Video 30 mins
Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
Society, Politics & Law

Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955

...Project)Across the three plants, there were concerns that redundancies were on the horizon. In response, workers at the Blantyre plant agreed to restrict overtime and to share the work equally. One worker at the Blantyre plant, after initially agreeing to the rationing of work, did the opposite and instead ‘hogged’ work resulting in his pay being well above that of...
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Article 5 mins