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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...heritage is set against potential economic gain. The material presented here, from the 1980s and updated to 2015, demonstrates how local places are not static, but constantly evolving and undergoing processes of reinvention. It also suggests that there are no ‘one size fits all’ solutions to the challenges facing peripheral areas. This article, along with those on...
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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...heritage and advertising, Digital Drama commemorated the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, after which some women got the vote, in its Heritage Lottery funded ‘100 Banners’ project. The inspiration and influence of the early suffrage banners are captured in 100 modern re-workings and responses. You can watch a film about the project, ‘Satin,...
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Issues in women’s football
Health, Sports & Psychology

Issues in women’s football

...World Cup tournaments compared to the men’s. Transcript The 2015 Women's World Cup Steph and Carrie discuss Carrie’s research into the women’s World Cup using the 2015 tournament in Canada as a case study. Transcript These three audios are taken from the free OpenLearn course, The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide. The course discusses both the...
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Armistice Day
History & The Arts

Armistice Day

...which marked the end of the First World War took effect at 11am on 11th November 1918. Here's a collection of resources for Armistice Day, to commemorate and remember these events...The origins of the First World War Annika Mombauer from the British Library takes you through a series of articles exploring the factors and events that led Europe, and the world, to war....
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Cooperation, anarchy and interdependence
Society, Politics & Law

Cooperation, anarchy and interdependence

...World Trade Organisation (WTO) control international states without one central world government? Is the WTO just a club for the extremely rich and powerful? The Open University’s Dr William Brown leads discussions around the themes of co-operation, interaction and interdependencies. Dr. Jef Huysmans and Dr. Simon Bromley delve into the political differences between the...
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Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...heritages in a national flag aid processes of cultural syncretism?...[Mashing up the Union Jack] The New Union Flag. Gil Mualem-Doron. CC-BY-2.0. It’s been 30 years since the publication of Paul Gilroy’s aptly named book, 'There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack'. Writing, in September 2017, about flags, and the act of ‘flagging up’ or mapping out symbols that...
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Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...world as essential for the survival of Cajun culture. Stories of Migration The Cajuns can look back on an eventful history of wandering around the Western hemisphere. This transnational migration actually started in the early seventeenth century, when French colonists from the Centre-Ouest region traveled to the east coast of Canada, settled along the Bay of Fundy, and...
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Learning our way to a better environment
Nature & Environment

Learning our way to a better environment

...World Environment Day is celebrated on the 5th June each year. Around the world, events and stories are used to highlight the environmental threats and challenges communities face and to celebrate the ways in which they are adapting successfully. But the environment celebrated last year is not the same as the environment of today. Due to a range of human activities such...
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