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Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...thinking comparatively across Europe and the Atlantic world. 9. Tell us about the sources that you used, and the challenges that came about using them. The book draws on a wide range of sources: newspapers, pamphlets, political treatises, parliamentary debates, private correspondence, and declarations of independence. The challenge was abundance. The late eighteenth...
A difficult conversation to have about racism
Education & Development

A difficult conversation to have about racism

...thinking “Great, I’m going to be the only brown person on this course, everyone will think it’s a joke me studying English”. Or another time, when I went on a training session and the topic changed to an arranged marriage. The group activity started and the people on my table looked straight to me for an answer. It took me everything not to scream “Arranged...
The First World War continues: Medina, Arabia, January 1919
History & The Arts

The First World War continues: Medina, Arabia, January 1919

...think of the First World War, you may think of the Western Front or the dates 1914 - 1918, but did you know that this truly global war was still being fought in 1919 in the Middle East? Dr John Slight explains...[Fakhri Pasha (Fahreddin Pasa), Commander of the Ottoman garrison at Medina, 1916-1919] Fakhri Pasha (Fahreddin Pasa), Commander of the Ottoman garrison at...
Supporting women musicians in the workplace
History & The Arts

Supporting women musicians in the workplace

...thinking about how you can foster inclusive practices, you can help to change this. Every year, thousands of women leave the workplace. Losing these women is bad for them, bad for the industry, and bad for the economy. Many of these women could be supported to stay, if offered appropriate flexibility and reasonable adjustments. By thinking through what you can do to...
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...systems move through, or heating systems fail. Moving around is not necessarily any better, and can expose us to even wider ranges of temperature. An airliner may leave the ground where the temperature is in the high twenties Celsius and climb within minutes to a height where the outside temperature is minus fifty. It turns out that almost all materials properties change...
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...think them "wonderful and almost endless," and so I dare say they are. But they formed only a very perfunctory interest of our day at Liverpool, where we had come to meet, not to take, a steamer. Our run from London, in the heart of June, was very quick and pleasant, through a neat country and many tidy towns. In the meadows the elms seemed to droop like our own rather...
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...think we need to be available and have understanding and compassion.’ Tutors explained what students needed from them in relation to communication, which is the focus of the next activity. Activity 2 List what you think students told us they need their tutors to be. To start you off here are three examples: encouraging, personable, patient. Can you suggest five more?...
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...think about all the things you spend time doing across a week. Try to include everything you do to help you map out the time that you might have available for study. Inevitably, some of you will be incredibly busy and juggling lots of things, while some of you might realise that you already have time available for study. Now you have mapped out your available time for...