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Starting with Maths
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with Maths

...history behind numbers and how mathematics has evolved into something we use in everyday life. We hear the experiences of people who rely heavily on accurate calculations for the success of their jobs. In addition to this we look into the lives of 12 OU students as they explain how studying makes them feel ‘on top of the world’. This material forms part of the course:...
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Geological time
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological time

...history of any area can be interpreted from a geological map. Dr Andrew Bell visits Morecambe Bay and the 'special' Siccar Point to investigate the rocks and stones in the area. This material is taken from The Open University course S260 Geology... Geological time A short introduction to this album. The age of rocks Andrew Bell begins to explain how we can determine the...
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100 Years of Votes for (some) Women
History & The Arts

100 Years of Votes for (some) Women

...history here...On February 6th 1918, The Representation of the People Act gave the vote to women over the age of 30 who met a property qualification. On the 14th December 1918, 8.5 million women voted for the first time in a General Election. To celebrate this historic event we've made a short film on two remarkable suffragettes, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson....
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Spectacular Flirtations
History & The Arts

Spectacular Flirtations

...History professor, Gill Perry takes us through The National Portrait Gallery and explores the relationship between 18th Century art and theatre and the notion of actresses and their portraits as seductive, beguiling objects. Gill also looks at parallels in the ways contemporary female stars use media images to promote themselves as celebrities... Spectacular Flirtations...
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Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...history the two wars will count as one war, and that we shall be squashed out of it altogether, and people will forget we ever existed. (Mitford, 1949 [1945], pp. 186–7) So said Linda, chief protagonist in Nancy Mitford’s bestselling and semi-autobiographical novel The Pursuit of Love, published at the end of the Second World War in 1945. It is likely that Linda’s...
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Supporting South Asian young adult carers: A guide for social workers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting South Asian young adult carers: A guide for social workers

...family members or friends who are ill, disabled, or have mental health needs (Carers Trust, 2025). In the UK, there are one million young carers aged 17 or under and 600,000 aged 18 to 25 (Carers Trust, 2025). This article is aimed at social workers and social work students to help them understand how they can support carers in transition, with a particular focus on South...
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Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...History Unit, shares his insights into the extent to which environmental issues can be incepted into blue-chip natural history programming; and what the benefits of opening up the BBC's archive could be, in particular when it comes to the future of crafting climate change messages...Dan Rees Dan has worked at the BBC Natural History Unit since 1997, producing, directing...
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How the stove changed the kitchen
Society, Politics & Law

How the stove changed the kitchen

...families from around Britain looking back on the first half of the twentieth century suggests that the impact of the stove on room function occurred later in these households. The autobiographers revealed that it was not just the poorest families who lacked a gas stove at the turn of the century. Even better-off working class families described making this switch in the...
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