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England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...course of English history. Battlefield Commemoration Battlefields have always been sites of commemoration. First, it was necessary to remember and honour the dead, on both sides, that had fallen there. Second, battlefields became sites of political and cultural importance where the legitimacy of the winning side, particularly during the Wars of the Roses, was established...
Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...course, organisms that yield robust hard-parts, such as shells, teeth and bones, are more likely to furnish suitable material for preservation in the first place, but even these will in time be destroyed by myriad chemical and physical assaults operating at the Earth's surface - unless protected by sedimentary burial. But you need only think, for example, of the...
Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...course the very concept of ‘public health’ has multiple meanings. A relatively uncontroversial starting definition is that public health is: …the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society This definition contains the idea of collective efforts furthering the health of a population and that...
Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...courses. History The English discovery of Barbados occurred in 1625 and it was settled in 1627. I use ‘discover’ in the context of England discovering the island, as opposed to it being discovered as an island. Despite evidence of indigenous populations having been present in Barbados in the past, including Caribs and Arawaks, a visit by the Portuguese in 1536...
Accessibility statement for OpenLearn
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn

...course, article pages). We have conducted a manual survey of the site for video transcripts and set up a system report for alternative text for images. We have also conducted an automated preliminary sample audit of 23 popular and important pages of the site. The latest testing of this website involved using the Accessibility Compliance Toolkit (ACT) which is an internal...
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...course took an interdisciplinary approach to integrate multiple disciplines and expose students to the Project Based Learning (PBL) approach with hands-on, project-based learning sessions conducted at FabLab Nepal. The goal was to expose children that had only experienced a traditional, theoretical and text-based way of learning to playfulness and experiential learning,...
A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
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A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...courses. Episode 1: The role of the Arts in a post-conflict society Episode 1 host and guests [Photograph of our host, Jordan Keeny.] Host: Jordan Kenny, BBC Radio 1 Jordan Kenny’s a TV and radio presenter/reporter, normally heard on BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat programme. Originally from Dromore in County Down, he worked for BBC Northern Ireland for four years before...
After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
History & The Arts

After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution

...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 of 2011 was one of the...