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Protest Banners: Hillsborough
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Hillsborough

...education study or returning after a break? You may even be able to study for free. ​ Our 'Arts and Languages Access module' – designed to develop the key skills required for successful university study – is an ideal starting point. You will be introduced to a range of absorbing subjects to prepare you for a wide range of qualifications in the humanities, including:...
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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...Education informed their respective interrogations of wider cultures. Williams’s writing on culture was influenced by the students in his extra mural classes in Sussex as much as his younger, more affluent Cambridge undergraduates. Some of the best work of both was produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s when post-war European societies were defined by the growth of...
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Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...education programme where we lead individuals of all ages on outdoor adventures in their local park. We also lead talks on specific subjects and can visit you in your location to deliver talks to community groups. On our website we also host a range of free, downloadable resources for learners of all ages, prompting engagement with the outdoors. These range from games to...
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Exercising at 50
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercising at 50

...educating on the correct posture whilst strengthening the core musculature that surrounds and protects your spine. As strength-based exercises, training should be performed at least twice a week. However, you can work on achieving good posture by thinking about it more regularly. In summary, as we get older we need to focus more on physical activity to increase our life...
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Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...education, a distinguishing characteristic was its breadth. He studied classics and history at school; philosophy and biology at university. He was equally at home in the worlds of literature and science. And one of the great features of his theory is that it links our biological being with the meanings that constitute our experience. Becoming a great scientist was...
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Life After Death
History & The Arts

Life After Death

...Education and Language Studies at The Open University. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a series of public talks titled ‘Ageing Well’. These 6 lectures are presented on a monthly basis and aim to facilitate your learning about agerelated changes and things we need to be mindful of, as we grow older. All the way through the ‘Ageing Well’ series we...
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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...educational activities. You can find these on the What’s On section of the website, or you can contact them directly by sending an email to info@theparkstrust.com or phoning the office. But you don’t need to live in Milton Keynes to get the benefits of these activities. You can care for your memory in very simple ways such as taking a walk and noticing things along...
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...educated at a convent near Ravenna, Italy, where, at age five, she died of a fever. Byron arranged for the body to be sent back to England, with a degree of pomp in its final leg that was to foreshadow Byron’s own funeral procession (Byron himself died in Greece exactly two years to the day after Allegra). Allegra’s little coffin was transported from the dock in...
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