2,730 search results
The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...system have all been cited as reasons for Germany’s chemical industry outstripping that of Britain. By 1913, Germany was exporting about 135 000 tonnes of dyes compared to Britain’s 5 000 tonnes. At the outbreak of the First World War, the only khaki dye available for British army uniforms was manufactured in Germany and had to be imported secretly! Imperial Chemical...
View article The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
Article 10 mins
The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982

...system, former Lovable worker Alison Cairns recalled in our 2015 interview that workers would: Put their name forward who was willin’ to do it. And it, just kinda worked it among wurselves really. There was a sheet up and you’d say ah can do it what night, cannae do it that night. Despite a low level of organisation by the occupation’s leadership, and no coordinated...
View article The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982
Article 10 mins
The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...system.” Little wonder, perhaps, that the OU’s radically democratic experiment in open access education was greeted with widespread hostility by many commentators inside and outside Britain’s traditional class-bound universities. (The shadow chancellor of the exchequer called the idea “blithering nonsense.”). Yet somehow the OU quickly put itself on the map....
View article The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Article 15 mins
Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...system for almost 6 years, or the state pension bill for 4 years, or the NHS for just over 4 years. It’s almost 5 times the size of the country’s annual welfare bill – which is currently the target of UK government spending reductions, all in the guise of ‘austerity’. There is no inevitability about the figures provided by Oxfam and many others that point to an...
View article Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Article 15 mins
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...Think, for example, of the City of London Corporation, which was established in the Middle Ages and, until 2006, used to be called the Corporation of London. Implications of having a separate legal personality include: Once incorporated, the company will continue until it is formally wound up. Companies can enter into contracts, or sue and be sued in their own right. The...
View course Companies and financial accounting
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...think about key numbers and data which help constructing evidence of how a t-shirt is produced, from raw cotton to our wardrobe...This free course, Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts, aims to describe what goes into making and selling t-shirts. Which resources, which markets, who is involved, the income people get, the income and value they create are all...
View course Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...think of gardens; but York Minster will not be satisfied with less than an autumnal woodland, where the trees stand in clumps, with grassy levels about them, and with spacious openings to the sky, that let in the colored evening light. You could not get lost in it, for it was so free of all such architectural undergrowth as cumbers the perspectives of some cathedrals;...
View article Nine days' wonder in York
Article 10 mins
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...Think again about the value for the total volume of water stored on Earth: 1460 000 000 km3. When dealing with large numbers such as one thousand four hundred and sixty million (1460 000 000), it is tedious to write the number in words or to keep writing all of those zeros. Worse still, it is very easy to lose some of the zeros or add extra ones by mistake. Fortunately,...
View course Water for life
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs