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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...Open University's History courses and qualifications The reasons why historians disagree are many and varied, but the following represent some of them: Questions of the selection and relevance of evidence The method and the techniques of history Ideology and political predisposition The purpose for which history is studied in the first place More recently, arguments about...
Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
History & The Arts

Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history

...opened his eyes – Algeria was a Mecca for all this circle: no Protestant obfuscations there. Gide [nineteenth/twentieth century French novelist] fell for a voluptuous native boy, Athman, who must have been very satisfying in contrast to Madeleine, and got his fellow-traveller, Henri Ghéon … to bring this morsel of humanity back to Paris. (p. 186) It is hard to...
Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...Open University's open degree. I was born in London in the summer of 1991 to an English mother and a Singaporean father. They grew up on opposite sides of the world and have both emigrated for the other over their time together. They have experienced two different cultures and in many ways are polar opposites – mum is loud and extroverted, dad is quieter and reflective,...
Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...open debates. In this instance, the deconstruction of historical narratives refers to the use of historical epistemology to gain access to further genuine and truthful accounts of history. Examples of the uncovering of history is evident in the accounts of the Moors among other important historical figures, whose historical stories are limited or unknown. The Moors were...
How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...opened, and he advanced to the couch of the blooming youths, cradled in healthy sleep. Eternal sorrow sat upon his face as he bent down and kissed the forehead of the boys, who from that hour withered like flowers snapt upon the stalk. I have not seen these stories since then; but their incidents are as fresh in my mind as if I had read them yesterday. "We will each write...
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...Open University in collaboration with the British Museum....Week 1 The influence of Egyptian art: Introduction - It is hard to imagine anyone with an interest in human history and human culture who has not been fascinated by ancient Egypt. Books and films on Egypt abound, ranging from painstaking science to wild fantasy, and the legacy of Egypt can be felt in fields as...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...resource, and sexuality. They do little to challenge a gender ideology that is based on a simple binary classification model which comes with quite fixed ideas about how to understand sex and gender. This binary model suggests that all people can be classified into one of two sex categories: male or female. These sex categories are identified as oppositional and defined...
Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
Education & Development

Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills

...resources on the OU Library Training site. Collecting and managing references What others said: I saved all refs in a file as I went on. I … found that the best way for me was to go into Google Scholar and to press cite, grab the APA version which needed less modifications, and to save it in alphabetical order. [EdD student, Year 3] I think I would have tried to find a...