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52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
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52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Writing Fiction. Give it a whirl if you aspire to be the next Stephen King or J.K. Rowling. We won an award for our digital badges and since their creation in 2015, moe than 170,000 digital badges have been awarded to learners. Our most popular interactive over the years is our Choose your own Philosophy Adventure. Hate maths? Conquer your fears with our most popular...
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The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...writing an obituary for Ina Scott in The Independent in 2004: Very few individuals in Britain can reasonably claim to have brought about single-handedly an alteration in the law of the land. But, this is precisely what a factory-worker grandmother achieved. Buoyed by the result, the workers continued their occupation throughout February and early March. At this point, the...
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‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982
Society, Politics & Law

‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

...Writing about Economic Restructuring. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. Perchard, A. ‘“Broken Men” and “Thatcher’s Children”: Memory and Legacy in Scotland’s Coalfields’ pp.78-98 in International Labour and Working Class History (84), 2013. Phillips, J. ‘Deindustrialization and the Moral Economy of the Scottish Coalfields, 1947 to 1991’...
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The UK votes out: Instant reaction
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out: Instant reaction

...writing, this case couldn’t seem symbolically stronger: the vote to leave is 52% across the UK but in Scotland 62% voted Remain. Yet it is too soon to tell if this result will prompt a major and sustained upswing in support for independence. This is partly because it is also too soon to predict Scotland’s place in EU negotiations. The second referendum story requires...
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...writing. The ‘Celtic Twilight’ referred to a later-nineteenth-century movement which was part of the Irish literary revival. It celebrated myth, folklore and what was seen as the other-worldly mystery of the Irish past. As well as defining the culture of Ireland’s past as attractive and powerful in its own right, the literary revival arguably offered its readers a...
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53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Writing Fiction. Give it a whirl if you aspire to be the next Stephen King. We won an award for our digital badges and since their creation in 2015, more than 200,000 digital badges have been awarded to learners. Our most popular interactive over the years is our Photographic memory test. Hate maths? Conquer your fears with our most popular badged open course, Succeed...
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Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!

...write out and practice using STAR for each one. Other help for success in interviews There is quite a lot to think about in this article, but in a nutshell: watch your thinking, does it need challenging? remember how important your non-verbal behaviour is, does this change under pressure? think about how to stand to give you confidence, and how to sit in the interview to...
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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...Writings of Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano, the African) Documenting Abolition of the Slave Trade. United States: Markus Wiener Publishers. Equiano, O. (2004) The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. United Kingdom: Random House Publishing Group. Edwards, P. (1989) ‘A Descriptive List of Manuscripts in the Cambridgeshire...
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