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The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...History Month tried to decolonise the Western cultural stigmatisation that still surrounds African and African-Caribbean religions even today. The Middle Passage The forced and constant movement and encounter of different people, languages, goods, cultures, religions, and objects, in the Atlantic space, assisted the development of new religious identities...We cannot...
Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen

...history to be the first woman to win Olympic gold in boxing before going on to win Commonwealth gold in 2014 and repeating her Olympic success in 2016. Her prowess both in and outside the ring continues to provide inspiration to many, especially those within the LGBT community. Providing equal inspiration to those within disability sport, Hannah Cockroft, born with...
Latitude and Longitude
History & The Arts

Latitude and Longitude

...History of Navigation at Sea Secrets of Ancient Navigation The BBC and the Open University are not responsible for the content of external websites. Further reading Fisher D., Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings: How to build and use 18 traditional navigational instruments, International Marine Publishing Larijani L.C., GPS for Everyone: How the Global Positioning System can...
Bioinformatics: a new asset in the Disease Detectives toolkit
Science, Maths & Technology

Bioinformatics: a new asset in the Disease Detectives toolkit

...history, which included time in the Amazon region, doctors were able to prescribe the correct antibiotics. The infection cleared and her vision returned. [image of bacteria] Why DNA databases matter This kind of success is only possible because the Leptospira strain had already been detected in the wild, sequenced and added to a reference database. Metagenomics can only...
Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?
History & The Arts

Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?

...histories, or teaching ambitious young men how to get on. For Socrates, though, there was only one question that mattered: how can we live good lives? And by ‘a good life’ he didn’t mean a life packed with power, or money, or fame. He meant an ethically good life: the life of someone who is courageous, temperate, pious and just; above all, someone who is wise....
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...history to smuggle in broader environmental messages, or at least that would be the point of the show or the film, but if you said to the channel controller, ‘This is an environmental film’ it probably wouldn’t get green lit. I mean things have changed. I’m talking about a period in maybe up to five, ten years ago. There was then a moment where we all got more...
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...history to smuggle in broader environmental messages, or at least that would be the point of the show or the film, but if you said to the Channel Controller, ‘This is an environmental film’ it probably wouldn’t get green lit. I mean things have changed. I’m talking about a period in maybe up to five, ten years ago. There was then a moment where we all got more...
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...history when at just 21 she became the youngest person to qualify as a train driver. She shares the story of her impressive achievement with Lois Nicolson...Find out about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. [Nicole McLean]I first joined the railway in 2013 at the age of 18. I had successfully attained a hospitality steward job through an agency...