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Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Beginners' Spanish: Getting around: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe places in Spanish give and understand directions in Spanish talk about urban transport in Spanish navigate around a...
Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...thinking at all. In The Anniversary, I thus introduced De Quincey: A short spare figure, with an expression in his eye that at once indicated the strength of the man of genius and the weakness of the valetudinarian, advanced with a slow pace of diffidence towards us, and thus addressed us: "I fear, sir, that I am an intruder both upon your interesting conversation and...
Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...think of David Bowie, picture him as incarnations of his most memorable personae: Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane or the Thin White Duke. Much of my academic work, my PhD thesis and subsequent first book focus on disguise in the theatre, particularly mendacious characters and the multiple masks and identity changes they don within the ever-so illusory world of the stage. You...
Protest Banners: Hillsborough
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Hillsborough

...Think you might be interested in taking your learning further? Are you new to higher education study or returning after a break? You may even be able to study for free. ​ Our 'Arts and Languages Access module' – designed to develop the key skills required for successful university study – is an ideal starting point. You will be introduced to a range of absorbing...
Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...Think you might be interested in taking your learning further? Are you new to higher education study or returning after a break? You may even be able to study for free. ​ Our 'Arts and Languages Access module' – designed to develop the key skills required for successful university study – is an ideal starting point. You will be introduced to a range of absorbing...
What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?

...in the UK after Brexit, it appears there are still some people they are unhappy to keep in their territory after Brexit. It’s unclear what would happen to those who miss the deadline. As these are not minor risks, it’s something Javid and the Home Office should keep thinking about. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...thinking can be found in Politics and Letters, a series of interviews with New Left Review in which he expanded on his interests across drama, literature and politics. One of his last novels, Loyalties, drew on his reflections of the predicaments, betrayals and divided allegiances that faced some of the 1930s generation: another account which extended across the borders...
DIY: Taking the Caffeine Out of Tea
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Taking the Caffeine Out of Tea

...think would be a suitable choice? Since the drink is made by adding boiling water to tea leaves, water would seem to be the answer. Boiling water is unlikely to extract only the caffeine though; other compounds will be extracted too. We’ll need to separate the caffeine from these other compounds at a later stage. In a small saucepan, boil 200cm3 (about 6 fl. oz) of...