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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...
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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...
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Video 5 mins
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...
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Article 5 mins
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...
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Article 10 mins
Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...world. ...[illustration showing rich tax evaders on a coach] In media output across much of the world, accompanied by countless discussions on online forums and across various websites, there has been a considerable amount of commentary following the publication of the latest Oxfam report on the extent of global inequality. The new 2016 report, An Economy for the 1%, was...
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Article 15 mins
Who are Europeans?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are Europeans?

...heritage, Christianity, the Renaissance, the Reformation, world expansion, scientific revolution, Enlightenment, industrialisation, modernisation and totalitarianism. No doubt historians have a crucial role to play in recovering a balanced vision of the European past. The collapse of communism from 1989 to 1991 meant the ‘return’ to Europe of the Central and Eastern...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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...
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Fantasy fiction: an introduction
History & The Arts

Fantasy fiction: an introduction

...worlds that no longer obey the rules of this one? Discover more about fantasy fiction, a genre that is as old as storytelling and yet constantly reinventing itself...What happens to literature when it moves beyond the confines of the real? When it uses its power to create “other” worlds that no longer obey the rules of this one? Welcome to fantasy fiction, a genre...
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Video 15 mins