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The debate on the origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

The debate on the origins of the First World War

...changed in the hundred years since war broke out. This article explores the origins of the Great War...Find out more about The Open University's History courses and qualifications How could the death of one man, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was assassinated on 28 June 1914, lead to the deaths of millions in a war of unprecedented scale and ferocity? This is the question...
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We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
Education & Development

We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education

...changed the education capital of whole families, in addition to just children and young people. In this doctoral, mixed-methods study, families (including young people) were asked to attribute value (High; Medium; Less; None) to several statements related to educational spaces, curriculum and educators [1]. The results were somewhat surprising. Twenty-one families highly...
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Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?

...changed over time, but in the main it considers a social situation for the coach and athlete that is continually shaped by their thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Further, Jowett (2017, p.155) adds ‘that a coach and an athlete are mutually and causally interdependent and thus how one feels, thinks and behaves affects and is affected by how the other feels, thinks and...
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Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
Society, Politics & Law

Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate

...changed since the time of publication. The Open University continues to focus research on issues of migration and narratives from those with backgrounds of seeking asylum. The Covid Chronicles from the Margins project explores the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspectives of creative asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants in the UK and around the world....
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Why books are a lifeline for prisoners
Society, Politics & Law

Why books are a lifeline for prisoners

...changing lives – and, yes, of saving public money. The project I saw in action is called The Big Book Share, and involves prisoners reading and recording chapters of children's books. A CD of the reading is given to their families so that children (and, in the case of some of the women prisoners, grandchildren, nephews and nieces) can listen to a bedtime story from...
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Planetary Protection of Icy Worlds
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Icy Worlds

...change to the conditions considered as the limits for life. Since Cassini analysed the gas and ice in Enceladus’ plumes during a series of passes through them, suggestions for future sample return missions have also been made. Any such plans would attract the most stringent Planetary Protection requirements (Category V), both to minimise contamination to the moon and to...
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Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse
Society, Politics & Law

Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse

...changes to the penal code increased the public’s desire for such “artwork”. Fewer people, and essentially only murderers, were hanged by the accession of Queen Victoria, so the rarity of an execution combined with the sensational nature of the crime whetted public appetites. Highly decorative broadsides were printed to inform about and commemorate in prose, verse...
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‘Social Murder’: the realities of ‘Better Regulation’ in Contemporary Britain
Society, Politics & Law

‘Social Murder’: the realities of ‘Better Regulation’ in Contemporary Britain

...changes to the public sector we have witnessed one more in the sphere of regulation – creeping privatisations of regulatory functions and, in some cases, at Local Authority levels, the wholesale privatisation of regulatory services. It is in this context that it is worth recalling why regulation emerged – namely, to mitigate the worst effects of capitalist production....
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