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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn

...Heritage collections Reproductions of items in heritage collections are exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations where they cannot be made accessible due to the unavailability of cost effective solutions to achieve this, or where making items accessible would impact negatively on the preservation of the item. PDFs and other documents PDFs or other documents that...
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...world look to their leaders in all spheres of social, political and organisational life. Rather than help, though, leaders often seem to be part of the problem. When it comes to politicians, fingers are often pointed at the leaders of political parties for failing to provide a clear vision, for their personal moral failings, or for their inability to deliver on their...
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Arddangosfa Blaenau Gwent REACH
History & The Arts

Arddangosfa Blaenau Gwent REACH

...Heritage’). Prosiect celfyddydau creadigol yw BG REACH, sy'n cefnogi trigolion Blaenau Gwent i greu celf, cerddoriaeth, ysgrifennu creadigol a ffilm sy'n myfyrio ar hanes cyfoethog a diddorol eu hardal leol. Mae'r arddangosfa hon yn ddathliad o dreftadaeth Blaenau Gwent drwy ddoniau'r bobl sy'n byw yno. Hefyd ar gael yn Saesneg | Also available in English Yn y ffilm fer...
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Sut daeth jazz i Gymru
History & The Arts

Sut daeth jazz i Gymru

...Heritage Wales / Hillary Edmiston. De: Y plac glas a osodwyd y tu allan i adeilad PCYDDS Dinefwr yng nghanol dinas Abertawe i'w choffáu, © PCYDDS. Roedd ei ffrindiau'n newyddiadurwyr, yn gaethweision a ryddhawydd ac yn ymgyrchwyr megis Frederick Douglass ac Ellen a William Craft, a'r gweithredwyr gwleidyddol William Lloyd Garrison a Harriet Beecher Stowe. Roedd y...
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Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...world. Founded as far back as 1949 and with 47 Member States with over 800 million people, it focuses on some of the most difficult and controversial issues concerning human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Whilst best known for the European Convention on Human Rights, it has actually concluded hundreds of binding legal Conventions and carried out scores of...
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Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...heritage, the origins of braille lie in Ancient Greece. The historian and scholar Polybius invented what became known to cryptographers (code makers) as the Polybius Square, a system for encoding letters using a 5x5 grid. Polybius square with the modern English alphabet 1 2 3 4 5 1 A B C D E 2 F G H I/J K 3 L M N O P 4 Q R S T U 5 V W X Y Z Jump forward a few millennia to...
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Understanding Identity
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Identity

...heritage. The tracks on this album discuss issues such as identity, the relationship between the natural and the social sciences, and the colossal topic of ethnicity, especially in the UK. The material forms part of the course DD100, An introduction to the social sciences: understanding social change... Understanding Identity A short introduction to this album Identity -...
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Scotland's gold trail
Nature & Environment

Scotland's gold trail

...heritage-and-retro/heritage/first-gold-mine-scotland-due-open-year-1410883https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/nov/08/gold-mining-tyndrum-scotland-scotgold Link to a paper on Lead Mining in Tyndrum: www.nmrs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/bm99lookinside.pdf Article from Mining Technology on ‘Technological Innovation and Adaption: Tyndrum Lead Mine and the German...
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