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It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Society, Politics & Law

It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name

...Open University employee Sudesh Loi gives his views...Before joining The Open University in March 2021, I left my old job of 12 years and decided to take a year out of work as my wife was expecting our second child during the COVID-19 pandemic. I eventually decided to begin the application process but first I needed to dust off my 12+ years old CV and update it. What...
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Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...open sea drawing on a romantic idealisation of the seafaring life central to ideas of British identity. [Henry Wood] William Walton's (1902-1983) overture Portsmouth Point, written in 1925, also invokes a romanticised history of Britain as a great sea power. Walton drew inspiration from a print by the English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Rowlandson's...
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Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 © Mary-Catherine Garden Figures 5, 6 and 7 © Tim Benton. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...miss out Course image Morten F in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Introduction to Spanish
Languages

Introduction to Spanish

...Open University Library webpage and there choose the Library Resources. On the right hand side you can see ‘Dictionaries’ – click on that and scroll a bit down. You can see, for example, the Oxford dictionaries here. Click on that. Choose your language – in this case we will choose Spanish and we will see, for example, Spanish to English. Let’s look at the word...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...Open University’s Classical Studies courses and qualifications....Herodotus and the invention of history: Introduction - With the information explosion online, how can you tell fake news from the real thing, or be more sensitive to how information can be weaponised? In the fifth century BCE, a Greek by the name of Herodotus faced a similar challenge when he set out to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?

...resources from much-needed food production...The cultivation of khat in Yemen has expanded during the ongoing crisis, with the plant now taking up about 15 per cent of agricultural land, according to figures released by the Yemeni Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation. It was previously grown only on mountains and hills. The ministry's statistics also confirm a large...
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What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?
Nature & Environment

What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?

...resources available in many museums throughout the world.” Small Animals, Big Changes Hope and his colleagues found that the forest-dwelling masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) is expanding its range, while its neighbor to the north, the tundra-dwelling barren ground shrew (Sorex ugyunak), is experiencing constriction and fragmentation of its habitat. The encroachment of the...
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