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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...