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The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...world. Nowadays, the Theory of Moral Sentiments is generally only remembered by historians, but Smith’s contemporaries rightly hailed it as a revolutionary book. Other eighteenth-century philosophers were attempting to mould human behaviour according to external commands derived from religion or philosophical systems. Smith, though, argued that human morality was...
Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...heritage. Then in 1973 even the industry went, the big wage packets, the good hedonistic working class lifestyle that had developed in Coventry was then destroyed or at least severely damaged. I’m not surprised that growing up in the period inspired you to write the sort of music that you did. Terry: So what cities do you think have got it right? Dr Lincoln Allison:...
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...
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...world. It will explore the connections between food, culture and traditions, and the challenges in providing healthy and nutritious food to the world’s growing population. The course will examine innovative approaches to food that also help environmental sustainability....Eating for the environment: Introduction - Many discourses on food security have focused on feeding...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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...
Henry Tudor: a Welsh hero…?
History & The Arts

Henry Tudor: a Welsh hero…?

...heritage organisation Cadw. Instead, as BBC Radio Wales has highlighted, it was the result of a four-year grass-roots campaign by local residents. [Pembroke Castle, Wales] Henry VII - born Henry Tudor - was born at Pembroke Castle in 1457 Henry came to power by defeating the infamous Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. He could claim descent from medieval Welsh...
Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...World War in April 1917, the US government again sought Irish recruits by appealing to the heroic reputation that the Irish had acquired as a result of their service during the Civil War. [United States Government recruiting poster. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs department.] United States Government recruiting poster. Library of Congress, Prints and...
Harry Potter and death and bereavement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Harry Potter and death and bereavement

...world when it comes to death and bereavement? Dr Sam Murphy explores...Traditionally, death and dying has been a subject which children may well have been shielded and protected from. J.K. Rowling’s books do the very opposite. They are imbued with death, indeed, the very type of deaths which the reader would not expect to experience. The reader lives in a world where...