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Reading Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Mill
History & The Arts

Reading Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Mill

...Open University course AA311: Reading political philosophy, from Machiavelli to Mill... Reading Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Mill An introduction to this album. Machiavelli: Nigel Warburton and Quentin Skinner An in-depth discussion of Machiavelli’s The Prince, including its social, historical and moral context and the book’s continuing relevance to...
Exploring Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring Psychology

...Open University course DSE212 Exploring psychology... Exploring psychology About this Exploring Psychology album Disability discussed A BBC Disability Affairs correspondent introduces a panel to discuss the issues surrounding identity and disability. Disability and identity Lois Keith reflects on her disability and her change in her sense of identity. Can disability be...
Audio 1 hr 33 mins
The Physical World
Science, Maths & Technology

The Physical World

...Open University course S207 The physical world... Helicopters: flight basics A look at the basic physics of helicopter flight. Helicopters: Traditional rotor blades A look at traditional rotor blades and the physics of how they work in flying a helicopter. Helicopters: Modern rotor blades A look at modern rotor blades and the physics of how they work in flying a...
Video 1 hr 36 mins
Design and Designing
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Designing

...Open University course T211 Design and designing... Design and designing A short introduction to this album Introduction to drawing Controlling fingers and wrist to draw shapes and letters. Shading and toning Using pencil shading to show tone. Modeling a chair How to make a cardboard model of a chair from a cereal carton. Making a cd case How to make a CD case using...
What were Victorian pauper's graves like?
History & The Arts

What were Victorian pauper's graves like?

...opened for about four weeks. The grave was what is called a pauper's grave. Such graves as these were kept open until there 17 or 18 bodies interred in them; there was only the body of a still-born infant in the one in question. It was not the custom to put any earth between the coffins in those graves, except in case where the persons died of contagious diseases and in...
Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh
OpenLearn Ireland

Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh

...open ledges, like the top of the stack here, and they like to gather in large groups to defend their eggs and young. And then we’ve got puffins. Puffins are burrowing birds and nest down below on the grassy bank here, where they can burrow into the earth. DARRYL GRIMASON: See the lovely wee orange legs on them. ALISON MCFAUL: Lots of them down there. There’s one or...
An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...Open University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. [An image of a top hat and phrase by Hercule Poirot]In 2020, crime fiction overtook general and children’s fiction to become the best-selling literary genre in Britain (The Guardian, 2020). In 2021, two novels from Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series occupied first and fourth place in the UK’s...
After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
History & The Arts

After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution

...Open University's History courses and qualifications [Nationalists demonstrating in Cairo in march 1919] Egyptian nationalists demonstrating in Cairo, March 1919 In 2011, millions tuned in to watch extraordinary scenes of enormous demonstrations in the centre of Cairo against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, who was forced to relinquish power. The Egyptian Revolution...