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Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools
History & The Arts

Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools

...courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Katie Donington]My grandmother was a great lover of history; she wanted to study it at university, but she became profoundly deaf when she was a teenager and then the Second World War intervened. She would tell me stories about Tudors and Stuarts, and she also visited local schools to recount her...
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Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...breakdown of wages in the Premier League and Championship, [online]. Available at: https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/a-club-by-club-breakdown-of-wages-in-the-premier-league-championship/ 3. Goldblatt, D. (2014), The Game of Our Lives, London, Penguin. Read the other articles in this collection Now take a free related course Football and money Study with the OU...
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‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism

...course, The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide). Convincing athlete activism dispels the myth that sport and politics should not interact, fostering hope that injustices can be addressed to create a more equal and fair society. Many are inspired by athletes who are involved in activism because of their empowered commitment to change, despite the risks...
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The science behind why we drink alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science behind why we drink alcohol

...courses People have been consuming alcohol for at least 10,000 years. And when drinking water was rather risky, alcohol seemed a much safer bet . Amaldus of Villanova, a 14th-century monk, even wrote that alcohol “prolongs life, clears away ill humours, revives the heart and maintains youth”. Today people will give you many reasons for their decision to drink and most...
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...course that the subjects of these media representations, animals and plants are threatened in their existence by humans through the exploitation of natural and geological resources. And they stand no chance against humans. Help others see the truth. The system is stacked in favour of corporations continuing in their exploitation of environmental resources and our...
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From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...courses and qualifications. In statistics, analysis is often presented as beginning with data. In practice, this is rarely true. Before any data is collected, there are already expectations about what values are plausible, which outcomes seem unlikely, and what patterns might emerge. These expectations arise from previous studies, theoretical understanding, and practical...
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How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?

...course, this doesn’t stop others speculating that the signal may be just that. And it begs the question, how do you work out if a strange signal from space really is a message from aliens? The simple answer is that you have to rule out everything else first and only then can you think it may be aliens. As Sherlock Holmes said: “When you have eliminated the impossible,...
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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...course of justice Inerasable as my scars and fate. I am here a woman ... with all my lives strung out like beads before me It isn’t privilege or pity that I seek It isn’t reverence or safety quick happiness or purity but the power to be what I am/ a woman charting my own futures/ a woman holding my beads in my hand [A photograph of a woman holding a bunch of flowers]...
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