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How do historians know about the past?
History & The Arts

How do historians know about the past?

...changed over the years. We can also find entries in reference dictionaries and encyclopaedias describing amongst other things famous Met cases involving criminals like Dr Crippen and the Kray twins. The Metropolitan Police have even written up their history from their point of view on their own website. All these along with hundreds of other books and articles written by...
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Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods
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Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods

...change in order for flesh to be produced.” No blood, no chance of a baby. Today, we know that the placenta keeps an unborn baby’s blood supply separate and provides oxygen and nutrients to the baby via the umbilical cord. 3. Losing a pint of blood was ‘normal’ How much blood were women expected to lose? Today a “normal” period is expected to be around 80ml, or...
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Can we design places to combat loneliness?
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Can we design places to combat loneliness?

...changes to housing? The study also found that access to good quality public and active (walking, cycling) transport on the other hand, seems to have a protective effect. So too does living somewhere with access to community centres and natural spaces. These are all aspects of people’s neighbourhoods which seem to help them to have casual interactions – bump into...
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Even the homeless can have a 'home'
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Even the homeless can have a 'home'

...changing city Since the early 1980s, Liverpool has been undergoing economic, physical, social, political, reputational and cultural regeneration. These processes have picked up pace since 2003, when Liverpool was announced as the 2008 European Capital of Culture. This accolade proved to be the catalyst for a range of initiatives to “clean up” the city, ready for its...
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student

...changing jobs, moving sectors, starting a new career, or want to develop in your existing role, OpenLearn can help with that too. Our skills for work content is there to support your development, and because it's created by The Open University (sometimes in partnership with other employers), you can include it on your CV with confidence. OpenLearn digital badges Digital...
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Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
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Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...change these attitudes and to raise the status of the Spanish language in the US. Efforts like his are making a difference. The benefits of bilingual learning gained recognition in 1968 with the Bilingual Education Act. The federal legislation encouraged school districts to incorporate native language instruction for children with limited English-speaking ability. A 2010...
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Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
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Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...change or even a surname change. However, if the postcode, date of birth and surname are the same but the NI numbers are different, then you would look into this further. When performing a matching with such large data sets, you generate a number of categories that require further investigation due an incomplete matching. For each of these categories, you would take a...
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...change from the Reformation till within the last forty years… But during the last forty years, a tremendous change has been going on; it has affected all classes, few for better, the lowest and most numerous much for the worse”. He continued: “one chief cause of this moral revolution, for such it may truly be called, is to be found in the improvement of machinery,...
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