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Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow: from tenements to riverside apartments
Society, Politics & Law

Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow: from tenements to riverside apartments

...history shaped by a ten-fold rise in population from 5,000 in 1850 to over 55,000 by 1901, and forward to the Glasgow Harbour regeneration scheme...Tenements, trams and towering cranes: the stories behind a Clydeside street Industrial expansion of the river city of Glasgow saw the diverse population housed in the city’s iconic tenements. High rise and new luxury...
Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...History Month’. Transcript I began by discussing student-led campaigns to decolonise art and design in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the UK and beyond. These campaigns have drawn attention to racist design practices such as the use of stereotypical images of Black bodies, cultural appropriation, the devaluing of non-western art and design and the...
How do historians know about the past?
History & The Arts

How do historians know about the past?

...history of the Met and how they were formed by the then Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel. Books about criminal justice, in general, can also offer insights into why the Met was formed. Historians have also written about detailed aspects of the Met’s development, such as the history of their uniform and how it’s changed over the years. We can also find entries in...
Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...family life. [A car decorated as a 'chavmobile' promoting a record by Goldie Lookin' Chain] A 'chavmobile' promotes a Goldie Lookin' Chain record They are the people locked well outside the communities of Middle England and those above such communities, to many of our politicians, journalists and commentators they are natives of a foreign land. Owen Jones argues that we...
The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...history of over-promising and under-delivering when it came to educational technology; as far back as 1922, for example, Thomas Edison declared that “the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system.” Little wonder, perhaps, that the OU’s radically democratic experiment in open access education was greeted with widespread hostility by many...
Maintaining social order with gruesome images of Hell
History & The Arts

Maintaining social order with gruesome images of Hell

...History at The Open University, explains the meaning of a fresco in the church of Kitiros in Crete...Long before Dan Brown's "Inferno" fresco painters on the island of Crete attempted to create their vision of Hell. New research sheds light on how these images helped to maintain social order. The frescoes pictured damnation and torture, but employed a touch of modern...
Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...histories, and religious ideas of virtues and vices, to focus instead on what we are, and can accomplish, in terms of our universal nature. [Tobacco Plantation, detail of a print by Richard H. Laurie, from 1821.] Human rights hero? [Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information war poster (1941–1945).]While he was not the first to set it out, John Locke...
‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?
History & The Arts

‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?

...history...Find out more about The Open University’s music courses_.  _ A small number of hymns are so familiar to many Welsh people that it might be tempting to say, for example, that ‘everyone knows ‘Bread of Heaven’’. However, examination of the textual and musical histories of many of the best-known Welsh hymns often reveals complicated stories that can be...