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Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...public profile. Breaking the rules Puzzle-disguises and the fantasy setting also make it possible to incorporate thoughts and show characters behaving in ways which normally would be unacceptable for an Oxford don under holy orders (this was compulsory for Dodgson’s position) or a well-brought-up Victorian girl. For example, when Alice finds the cake and bottle labelled...
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Article 10 mins
The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...public life, call for a reconsideration of exactly what is being remembered and what should be commemorated. Who was Elizabeth Fry? Born Elizabeth Gurney on 21 May 1780 at Norwich, she was one of twelve children born into the wealthy merchant and banking Gurney family, and spent most of her formative years at the seventeenth-century mansion, Earlham Hall, in Norfolk....
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...public life and in revolutionary politics at that, her poems idealise women operating exclusively in the domestic sphere, in the roles of wife and mother. Identify a few aspects of the poem that you think might be celebrating the traditional domestic role of the Victorian woman. Also, see if you can identify any aspects that suggest that the dead mother has unusual powers...
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Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...publicity, the mass pickets and protests, but those women were there from early morning to late at night, through the night, just making sure there was a presence on the factory gates. “And sometimes those jobs would be overlooked. Women kept the picket tidy, and that might sound mundane, but it was important. They made sure there was food there, that people were made...
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Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...public imaginary, however the experiences of men continue to dominate. Central to understanding the degree awarding gap is intersectionality, a central aspect of black feminist thought in terms of the potential for overlapping oppressions. Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) is associated with evoking this term to explain the oppression of black women. However, this approach has a...
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Article 10 mins
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...public, or otherwise use this course content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Conditions of use of Open University websites Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce in this course: Image Figure 1: DrAfter123/Getty Images Videos Videos 1-11: © Microsoft Every effort has been made to contact copyright...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care
Nature & Environment

Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care

...Health in Transport Vehicles, vol. 47, pp. 138–149 [Online]. DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.08.001. Marique, A.-F. and Rossi, B. (2018) ‘Cradle-to-grave life-cycle assessment within the built environment: Comparison between the refurbishment and the complete reconstruction of an office building in Belgium’, Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 224, pp. 396–405...
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Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...health and education support. The SEND system refers to the policies and practices that determine how these needs are defined and assessed, as well as how support is funded and provided. Further Reading Geronimus, A. T. (2023) Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life on the Body in an Unjust Society, Virago Press, London, UK. Malcolm, C. and Green, M. (2025)...
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Article 5 mins