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...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....

...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...

...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...

...history...8 May 1945 was Victory in Europe (VE) Day - a turning point in world history that brought an end to the Second World War in Europe. As we remember this momentous day, OpenLearn invites you to explore a special collection of resources that delve into the people, decisions, and events that shaped this period and its aftermath. From a critical look at Winston...

...history, and as a result these vases have exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society. These films show how you can an insight into Greek civilisation by observing the designs on the ceramics that have been acquired by these museums. The Open University’s Jessica Hughes analyses their religious mythology and Lucilla Burns discusses...