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...out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus60...History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: locate data in UK RED to help study the reading and reception of a literary text analyse individual...

...out of wedlock and had then been abandoned by the father. Unable to see a familial or economic future for herself at home, Marie-Louise Victoire Girardin escaped parental disgrace by disguising herself as a man. She joined a scientific expedition to Tasmania as a ship’s steward, calling herself Louis Girardin. Girardin was born in 1754. Described as petite, plain and...

...out of business...[ Construction of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway. Illustration shows the trench and partially completed cut and cover tunnel close to Kings Cross station, London. The railway opened in 1863.] Construction of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway. Illustration shows the trench and partially...

...out many of the issues Kathleen Christian (one of the academic consultants on the series) and I addressed in our textbook, European Art and the Wider World, 1350-1550, written for A344, Art and its Global Histories. What does it mean when we use the term ‘Renaissance’? This is a term still hotly debated in the field of Art History. The period in European history...

...out more about her life... Christine de Pizan c.1364 - c.1430 France Literature [Christine de Pizan image] Christine de Pizan lecturing to a group of men, 1413. During the late middle ages in Europe, few women had any control over the direction their lives took. The two principal routes open to them were marriage or admission to a religious community. For most, marriages...