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Wales and music: a conversation with Huw Stephens
History & The Arts

Wales and music: a conversation with Huw Stephens

...history of music in Wales. His work on music, theology and religion has been principally focused on music and religious practice in Britain since the eighteenth century, and in the Methodist movement more widely. [Dr Helen Barlow] Dr Helen Barlow Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences The Open University Dr Helen Barlow researches into the social and...
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Multiculturalism Bites
History & The Arts

Multiculturalism Bites

...history of multiculturalism? What are the arguments for and against its various forms? Has it failed? Does it have a future? The Open University's Nigel Warburton interviews ten leading thinkers about the meaning and implications of multiculturalism. David Edmonds introduces each episode... Tariq Modood on The History of Multiculturalism In this interview Tariq Modood...
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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...
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Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
OpenLearn Ireland

Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora

...history-the-arts/national-identity-britain-and-ireland-17801840/content-section-2 Diner, H. (1984) Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. Donnelly, J.S., (2002) The Great Irish Potato Famine, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Ltd. Doorley, M. (2000), ‘Irish Catholics and French...
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Reading communities
Education & Development

Reading communities

...families? What's the importance of building reciprocal and interactive reading communities? These videos explore...The TaRs research project found that RfP is strongly influenced by relationships between children, teachers, families and communities. Where shared understandings were established about the changing nature of reading and the value of everyday reading...
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Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic
Society, Politics & Law

Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic

...family members in public housing and worked at low-paid jobs to save money for college. He also volunteered for local politicians. That led to recommendations for paid work and eventually Hussen got a job working for a Liberal Party candidate who eventually became Premier of Ontario. He left that to become president of the Canadian Somali Congress and community...
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Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron

...history?...[Profile of Lord Byron] Lord Byron Likes : travel, lust, poetry Dislikes: social institutions, criticism, conformity Age: 236 Personality traits: artistic, creative, passionate, mysterious A bit about me: Love first touched my soul at the mere age of 8 when I set eyes upon my distant cousin Mary Duff. I was later to learn of her marriage, and ‘it nearly threw...
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The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...family, a person who lived alone, and a nuclear family. I reflected, at the time, on some of the implications of these recent societal shifts for our thinking about romantic relationships. The thought-provoking episodes are still available as downloadable podcasts on the Thinking Allowed website. Following the success of the series, Thinking Allowed are following it up...
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